I have noticed that many engineering majors are said to hard to maintain a high GPA.
What's your opinion on that ? What's your primary motivation to major in Biomedical Engineering ?
Thank you !
I first started out thinking that I wanted to be just an engineer, but after shadowing my uncle, an IM doctor, I really wanted the clinical part as well.
My major right now is biocomputing engineering, which is basically designing programs that interpret inputs for medical devices from AED's, to pacemakers, to medical imaging devices, and determining what the device should do.
My real passion right now is medical imaging. I LOVE anatomy and computers/technology, so I really want to go into radiology. I am most likely going to apply to MD/PhD programs and get a PhD in biomedical engineering specializing in medical imaging (assuming I am accepted), and get a research residency in radiology. Magnetic resonance (MR) has essentially unlimited amounts of imaging possibilities, especially functional MRI. Patients and clinicians are always going to want more accurate non-invasive ways to figure out what the hell is wrong with them over invasive procedures.
I am working on this by hopefully doing some research with a PhD here on mammography interfaces and automated computer detection this summer, depending on the funding the school gets.
I also would like to get a co-op at GE Healthcare Imaging (right next to Milwaukee) following my sophomore year, and continue to do research at Marquette.
I know that radiology is very hard to match into, so I would also love to be involved with neural implants and neurology. So in essence, the reason that I want to do biomedical engineering is because I am a masochist.
Right now it's not terribly hard to maintain a great GPA(I have physics, bio, calc2, BME class, and computer engineering class), but that's going to change next semester. I have a 3.72 as of first semester, and should be able to get close to a 4.0 this semester.
I absolutely LOVE what I am doing, so it's really not that hard to motivate myself to do the work. This is especially true for the computer engineering class; it's so rewarding finally getting a program to work as intended after debugging.
Quite honestly, what many people say on SDN is true. Major in what you really love doing, and the grades will follow (assuming you have a certain level of intelligence, work ethic, and studying skills).
Now that you've read this, you can read War & Peace.
Were you thinking of transferring after a year or so?
