<p>Yeah, I thought so as well - I've heard different from a few people (i.e. brian!)
It's still a retarded movement...as is the abomination that is "hella"</p>
<p>Sounds like you were there at the same time I was, RaNe - did I meet you?</p>
<p>Hmm, I dunno.</p>
<p>I remember meeting two girls at the lecture hall sitting in the back, and I also met one guy interested in business but thinking about USC too, and there was also this one guy who liked physics. There's more, but what do you look like and did you speak out during Mr. Poullard's lecture?</p>
<p>Hmmm, I had my Blue Cal Hat on most of the time - didn't get called on during JP's lecture....</p>
<p>I'm a guy, btw :)</p>
<p>hey! does anyone know the difference between the OHP and the OSP ?</p>
<p>OSP is for the Alumni Scholarship applicants (I got invited to that too, but it cost more ($90 vs $55 for OHP) and I'd already RSVP'd for OHP by the time I got the OSP email...)</p>
<p>They're really similar, IMO.</p>
<p>Indian, I'm also a prospective bioengineering major but was not able to attend the overnight program. Would you mind sharing some more details about what you heard (about Cal's bioE, specifically)?</p>
<p>Oh, yeah sure Hydralisks</p>
<p>Allright, so Cal Day - the 12th. I skipped the Chancellor's thing to get to Stanley Hall leisurely by ~8:45ish. </p>
<p>1) Bioengineering for Pre-medical students.
So Dr. Steve Conolly, the Vice-Chair for Student Affairs or some such title, introduced the topic, told us all to stand up and pat ourselves on the back for being admitted into the hardest major in the UC system (like 100 people/class). Apparently, BioE surpasses EECS and Engineering-undecided this year with the smallest admission percentage. Cool.</p>
<p>Then, he introduced Dr. Sanjay Kumar - M.D., Ph.D (he went to Hopkins for Med. school, then Harvard for his Ph.D) who talked about Pre-med for about 15 minutes. Basically stuff like how the specific concentration (there are 6-7) of Bioengineering Premed specifically includes the prereq. classes for Med schools.</p>
<p>Then, he introduced a graduating Senior, who was a Bioengineering student with his concentration in Premed. The kid was basically a mascot for the program; he talked about research he did/the community among the students/etc. He's deciding between Yale Med. and Hopkins Med. (So it seems like pretty good chances for Pre-med)</p>
<p>Then that presentation ended.</p>
<p>9:40 - 11ish
Steve Conolly came back up to talk about the BioE program as a whole, basically that they had restructured it. He went over a little bit about the different concentrations, then talked about the course curricula for all the different concentrations. All seem really similar except for slight variations in Upper div. courses, where the concentration finally takes effect. He also talked about research opportunities in the area - most prominent, of course, is UCSF. He also went over a few faculty members - one guys in particular, Dan Fletcher: oh my effing god. Undergrad B.S. in Princeton, First Ph.D in Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, Second Ph.D in Stanford, 2 Post-Docs in Stanford + Berkeley. Now he teaches at Berkeley. I shook his hand twice :)</p>
<p>The Student Panel was next, composed of 4 students - 3 Seniors, and 1 Sophomore. The first talked a lot about research, cause she was never really into it, and then she came to Cal and fell in love. She's gonna pursue her Ph.D somewhere next year. The second talked a bit about Study Abroad, and how she went to Scotland in her Junior year - I didn't really get a chance to talk to her..
The third talked about Co-op's, which sounded kinda interesting. It's basically a 6-month internship at a company (Industry), but after the 3 months that the summer interns stay, he stayed on for 3 more months (with a competitive salary, apparently). Basically, it's like full-time work experience as a student (you don't go to class for that time - he basically balanced it out with his huge cache of AP's).
The Sophomore talked about clubs and organizations - BioE Honors Society and BMES, essentially. He was a pretty cool guy - I talked to him for awhile after their presentations.</p>
<p>After that, the students offered their respective advice - Conolly asked them about their "scariest" thing at Berkeley: basically for some comedic relief. One girl talked about the homeless folks :)</p>
<p>After that, from 11ish - 11:30, some students put out posters of their research - pretty interesting stuff. They all obviously loved Berkeley!</p>
<p>I went to lunch then, and came back by 12:40 - so I missed the majority of Conolly's lecture on Noninvasive imaging (basically talking about his research with low-cost MRI's - something on the order of $65,000 instead of $1.5 million.</p>
<p>From 1 PM - 1:40, i went to Terry Johnson's lab technique demo-lecture. it was some pretty cool stuff, but he kinda ran out of things to do after the first 30 minutes ;)</p>
<p>Then, from like 1:45 - 2ish, I visited Dr. Fletcher's "hands-on look at cell movements" - just a bunch of microscopes places about. Here's where I shook his hand, and impressed his grad student with my knowledge of Actin/Myosin fibers in muscles (they were emulating Actin's force-pushing on glass beads)</p>
<p>All in all, a pretty good overview of BioE at Cal - have you decided on Berkeley?</p>
<p>Ah, sounds great! Thanks for sharing the info. I just sent in my SIR last night so I guess I'll be seeing you around? :)</p>
<p>Yeah, definitely :)
Where you thinking of rooming? I'm pretty set on Unit 1/2</p>
<p>I think I'll be headed to either Unit 1 or Foothill.</p>
<p>leftist: haha nope, but my brother is a mentor there...i was up for Cal day and was visiting him, so he was pretty excited about showing me the Rights of Spring tradition...and it was pretty hilarious, i must add.</p>
<p>are you in bowles?</p>