<p>Hey All, </p>
<p>I am currently a BME freshman at the school and i really like it. I just wanted to offer any help to anyone that has any questions about the school, or experiences i've had. Anyone undecided i would highly recommend it.</p>
<p>Wow, cool, a BME major.<br>
Dport, can you describe how intense your first year was? Like, how much homework did you do? Were the tests passable? Were profs willing to help?
Also, what courses did you take/or are going to take? Are there any that are really interesting?</p>
<p>First of all, let me give u a little background on my highschool. I came from a pretty large public school in mass where it wasnt all that hard to get good marks. That said, my first year here was all that i had expected. I had always had a really good work ethic and it is that trait alone that will get you through freshman year fairly easily. This year i took the basic freshmen engineering classing that most BMEs and other engineers take their first year. That includes: Year of chem, physics, chem and phys lab, calc, im taking linear algebra, and any other electives like BME Designteam which i highly recommend and i took econ, not a big fan. But the work in all of the class is very doable and it is not that stressful if u stay ahead of it. Also, the covered grades for first semester is a huge help and destresser. As far as the professors, a lot of your first year professors teach very large intro classes so there is not as much interaction with them. The tests are often pretty difficult but the class averages in the freshman engineering class are usually very low and and only a mediocre grade is needed to ace the test. The people that dont do well here are the ones that dont want to put in the large amounts of work that is required to do well and those who dont go to class etc. Next year, the BME classes start up like molecules and cells, physiological foundations, orgo, orgo lab, all the things that are much more interesting to me then the intro engineering classes. The work and material will get harder as u go on, but once u get into a rythym and get used to working at Hopkins level, it wont seem as hard.</p>
<p>Another BME freshman here.. just wanted to add about changes to the freshman BME courses. BME Design Team and Models for Life (which used to be the two freshman BME courses that you chose from) have been eliminated and replaced with a class called "BME Modeling and Design". </p>
<p>Under the current system, students in Design Team were members of a team with 6 freshman, 3 upperclassmen and 1 senior team leader. The team spent the first semester working on 3 assigned projects and then the spring was spent on a biomedical device project proposed by an outside sponsor (like doctors at Hopkins Med etc). From what I know about the new system (and this is second-hand knowledge), all freshmen will take Modeling and Design in the fall and will work on some of the same projects as first semester Design Team. During the first semester, upperclassmen will begin working on the sponsored project. In the spring, freshmen, if they choose to, can join with a team of upperclassmen and work on the sponsored project.</p>
<p>Incoming freshman BME's will probably hear more about this during the Open Houses (which you should definitely try to come to).</p>
<p>Thanks for all the info. I have been accepted into the BME major this year. I am more of a biology person and want to do things like genetic engineering, tissue regeneration etc. Genetic engineering, in particular, is something I have been interested in since I was 14 - I looked it up in books, internet, talked to professors and so on. Designing prosthetic limbs and biomedical devices don't interest me yet. Is BME what I want or should I be doing something like Biomolecular engineering?</p>
<p>Thank you for your help. Im an incoming BME student and have a couple of questions:
Are there many people in BME working pre-med program?
How many or percentage of BME students go to med school? I cant find any statistics data from JHU site.
What is the career outlook if you don't go to graduate school? Do they easy to find jobs? Are they paid well?</p>
<p>Dport8, it's really cool that we come from similar backgrounds. I was just wondering like how many hours of homework do you do per week?</p>
<p>I would say to the first question that at least half of all BMEs are also premeds. I am not sure of the exact stats but there is a lot of information about your other questions of the BME site <a href="http://www.bme.jhu.edu%5B/url%5D">www.bme.jhu.edu</a>. </p>
<p>Maguo - The amount of homework i do per week is probably like 2-3 hours a night of actually written work that needs to be turned in. However, a lot of time I work for longer than that trying to read ahead in my classes and other outside work. However, on weeks with an exam, there is always a lot more work preparing for those. However, a lot of the homework that is assigned the first year is not due or all, or is due like a week later so u can do it whenever it fits into your schedule. If u can stay ahead of it, the homework assignments are not that bad. I usually dont spread it out all week, i just do a lot of work on the weekend and then dont do much when im tired after a long day of class and labs.</p>
<p>While a lot of incoming freshman plan on going to med school after graduating, it turns out that about a third end up going to medical school, with the rest split between industry and graduate school. There are tons of companies that recruit at Hopkins and especially within the BME department. The department has an "industrial liason" who coordinates these recruitment meetings and all BME majors are constantly getting emails from him about new internship and job opportunities and companies coming to give presentations at Hopkins. The Career Center is also able to connect all Hopkins students with companies who come to campus to recruit Hopkins students.</p>