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<p>considering the amount of resources JHU has compared to the relatively small student body (more LAC sized than UCB sized), this is false.</p>
<p>a BME undergraduate of any year from freshman to senior can walk into the office of a faculty member in BME and land a research position right then and there. In fact, approximately 90% of BMEs participate in faculty/graduate student led research and/or conduct research of their own prior to graduation. In comparison, the next top BME school (Duke) can only say the same for approximately 60% of their students.</p>
<p>students at JHU overall have an easy time getting research. In the past year, I myself have landed two different research jobs: one on analyzing the effects of certain diseases on lab mice through controlled analysis, and the other in Public Health where I’ve been working with the Baltimore City School District and the Bloomberg School on Health Awareness at various high schools, and the effects of the programs being implemented there. For one job I get paid, for the other I get credit. And I’m not even a BME major! And by all means, I am not considered “exemplary.” I have tons of friends doing various other things, working with drosophila on the homewood campus to mutate stem cells, doing work in the Shock Trauma center, etc.
The student body here is not cutthroat or intense like people will tell you. Are there always people in the library? Yes. But what college doesn’t always have students in the library? Most people are out laying on the beach, tanning, playing volleyball, etc, while chatting or reading, or just sleeping. </p>
<p>And I see nothing wrong with the “get ahead” mentality. If more people had this progressive mentality, maybe the United States wouldn’t be embarrassingly stuck behind several other countries when measuring for educational aptitude. And studying hard does not mean not being able to party hard. If you encountered the number of peed-upon elevators and hungover kids I have at JHU, you might begin to see this for yourself and realize JHU is study hard and party hard ;)</p>