<p>Bio Engineering Admit at UC Berkeley with Regents Scholarship (full EFC so just $1K) plus status and perks, so the money isn't really the issue. I want to be around people who are interested in things besides just engineering like philosophy, history, music, etc.
Your POV is valued.
Thanks</p>
<p>I love bioengineering at Rice. It’s a ****ton of work but very rewarding; it’s easy to get internships and most of the professors are engaging people. Rice connects you with TONS of overseas internships, so even if it’s difficult to take a semester abroad with the workload you can still go sometime. Engineers Without Borders is great and the Global Health minor is awesome if you’d be interested in either of those things. Each class of bioengineers becomes very close-knit since you work together all the time; I can honestly say that I know all 70-odd people in our graduating class, which you just can’t do at Berkeley, and I’ve grown to like hanging out with a good deal of them when we’re not working (in fact we’ve scheduled a crawl party for next week…nerdy but awesome). Doesn’t hurt that the program is ranked 7th nationally.</p>
<p>Dunno if that was helpful at all lol but I like talking about it.</p>
<p>Thanks Silent Sailor, that’s very helpful. Will be at Owl Days next week. Is there something I should definitely try and do or see (aside from the general stuff that everyone does during Owl Days) while I am there?</p>
<p>You might want to check out the new BioScience research building, where a lot of bioengineering internships take place: [BioScience</a> Research Collaborative | Home](<a href=“http://www.rice.edu/brc/]BioScience”>BIOSCIENCE RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE | Rice University).</p>
<p>This question’s primarily for silentsailor, but I’d be interested in any current Rice student’s opinion…
I don’t think I’m likely to go into the sciences (right now I’m leaning towards poli-sci/IR), but the Global Health minor and Engineers Without Borders both sound interesting. How easy is it for Rice students to double major/ major and minor across disciplines? Can non-engineering students participate in EWB?</p>
<p>DD was a humanities, then Social Science major (graduated several years ago.) She went with EWB trip to Nicaragua for a month… I think she only had to pay for her food and everything else was covered. She changed majors several times, but never ventured anywhere near Engineering!</p>
<p>It’s actually quite common for Rice students to double major/major and minor in a science/math/engineering field and a social science/humanities discipline. I’ve even heard of students triple majoring at Rice, although I personally wouldn’t recommend that.</p>
<p>@BioGeek57 - Definitely at least drive by the BRC, because it’s a great-looking building. It’s cool to walk around also because they have all of these open spaces for meetings or what have you, but you have to know where to go for that as some of it’s still empty. You might also want to check out the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK), which is where lots of seniors build their design projects.</p>
<p>@maisats - Super easy. I have a friend who’s really involved in our microfinance club, so he’s doing economics and global health, and I have another friend who made her own major - “global health policy” which might be something you’re interested in. Working on the global health design projects requires some engineering skills but they definitely teach you along the way and groups are paired with roughly equal numbers of policy people and engineers. Engineers Without Borders is also full of non-engineering students: all of the countries we work in are in Latin America, so we can use anyone with decent Spanish skills. They also do lots of educational projects (like going to local schools and teaching kids about sanitation) that don’t require engineering skills at all. Also, the travel teams can always use manpower.</p>