<p>New transfer in the BNS Program and what just wondering it is like, what the professors are like, and how accessible they are</p>
<p>I’m a BNS major, so this is actually somewhere where I have insight!</p>
<p>You’ll have professors split between a lot of different disciplines, in psychology, biology, other sciences. In general, I have found my professors to be pretty accessible, and they want their students to go well, so they’ll make a point of being helpful. Most are pretty responsive to emails and will set up appointments for you if you can’t make it to their office hours.</p>
<p>There is definitely a variety of… technological abilities among professors. Generally they’re pretty good about putting their slides online and such, but I did have a professor who still liked to use the overhead projector and didn’t know how to put text on a powerpoint slide. But he was very friendly and knowledgeable!</p>
<p>Is there anything specific you’re wondering about?</p>
<p>Do you feel that BNS would be a good major to pursue medicine? Because the end goal for me is to ultimately become a neurologist</p>
<p>It will fulfill your pre-med requirements, except for physics. I’ve heard a number of people do neuroscience in college because they think it will make them stand out somehow in applications, but it’s actually become quite common as a pre-med major. Med schools are now also moving toward requiring some psychology and statistics courses, and BNS will fulfill those requirements. In the end, though, if you meet the pre-reqs, I don’t think it makes a huge difference what your major is. It’s a lot about what you pursue outside of the classroom, too, like research and clinical experience, so make sure you take advantage of those opportunities, too.</p>
<p>As for the neurologist part, isn’t it a bit on the early side to know what you even plan to specialize in? I started out with that same plan as you: BNS major as pre-med to become a neurologist. Now I’m looking at graduate schools. I’m not saying that you won’t go through with that plan. I’m just saying to keep an open mind, because once start college you discover a lot about different options and about what you want to do as well.</p>
<p>Will definitely keep an open mind because going into research might interest me. By the way are you familiar with the neurons club? If so could you tell me more about what it is about and if there are any similar clubs or organizations that would also be beneficial?</p>
<p>NEURONS is a club full of people who like neuroscience! They have different speakers come in and talk about brain-related things, like professors or students talking about their research. They also have other activities like Brain Awareness Week.
Other good clubs might be NUAMSA, which is the pre-med club. I think there’s also a biology club, which might be interesting. I’m also in Math Club, which isn’t terrifyingly mathy and does have free pizza every week.
I’d also recommend looking into PRISM, which is a ton of fun and a great way to get involved in research and science and meet other sciency people and professors: [PRISM</a> Attracting Students to Mathematics and Science through Interdisciplinary Research and Discovery](<a href=“http://www.math.neu.edu/prism/]PRISM”>http://www.math.neu.edu/prism/)</p>