My Regrets as a Biomedical Engineering Student
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ค. 2024
- Looking back on my experience as a biomedical engineering student, there are a few things I could've done differently to give myself a better experience - things I could've done to learn more and improve my educational experience - things I wish I knew. In this video, I refer to those things as regrets because I didn't do them.
✅ Links:
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The essays that got me into Brown University: leonzhao62.gumroad.com/l/gOaQn
⌚ Timestamps:
Intro: (0:00)
Failing to Understand the Point of My Degree: (1:06)
Not Customizing My Major: (2:43)
Neglecting Office Hours: (4:33)
Taking Too Many Classes: (6:16)
Not Starting the Internship Search Earlier: (7:43)
Outro: (9:39)
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3rd year bme student here :) i have the exact same regrets as you, especially with taking too many classes. i feel like a better way to get in the field you’re interested in is to major in something else like bio or mechanical or electrical engineering and then get a masters in bme. you will get to work in the field you’re interested while having a solid background in your focus of work.
bme is basically you know a little about a lot, and i feel like it’s not balanced nor cohesive enough to amount to much progress except for when you take your concentration classes.
I’m planning to switch my major to either Electrical engineering or biomedical engineering. Do you recommend one more than the other?
Quit that degree before it’s too late. It’s a useless degree.
Hi there I wanted to ask if doing a bachelor at chemical engineering and then going for a masters in biomedical engineering a good option? Also if I do a bachelor in chemical engineering can I go into aeronautical/aerospace engineering at masters level?
Dudes, check NCEES before you major in engineering. The only recognized engineering fields are on NCEES. If it isn't on there, then it is some bullshit your Uni cooked up.
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You picked all the engineering majors with the lowest chances of employment. Aerospace, yeah major in it if you think you can get into Space X, Boeing, Airbus, and the defense companies. If you dont get in, then it is as useless as BME, might as well major in Mechanical Eng, you can do Aero with a Mechanical Eng but also so much more. BME is a waste of time unless you going to med school. Chemical as well, You better off with a Chemistry degree. The only good engineering degrees are Civil , Mech, Electrical, the rest are unemploymend degrees.
I think it is very amazing how you are reflecting on your path on biomedical engineering and even more that you decided to share it with the world. I hope you are doing well!
This is such a fantastic take on the rat race that students experience and try to push themselves through by getting caught up in the minutia as you said. Most takes are either too conservative in which they overvalue grades and the ones that realize that grades and scores are overvalues aren't well articulated. I think you did a fantastic job putting this into words.
This was very helpful! thank you for sharing so others can learn from your experience.
Hi leon, thanks for for sharing your experience and thoughts, it's are useful to many.
Thanks for sharing your story, Leon.
thank you for this video!
I’m a BME graduate and i feel your pain man. I agree with not focusing on grades but rather acquiring skills which will help you secure a job or even start up your own company. It will get better ok. Keep at it❤
BME is only good for going to med school. That is it.
The skills you learn are solving problems. The same skill set you learn to treat patients. Unless you end up being a dermatologist. Trust me. The skills have definitely helped me in medical school.
I'm 1st year BME student and bro I swear this degree is so depressing 😭😭😭
lol don't forget your end goal
It’s a useless degree. Change your major
@@joylm9108 bro.
@@joylm9108 shush 🤞
@@joylm9108 why? Give me reasons don't state your opinion like that I am still in my 1st year and that was kind of awful+ even if it's not everybody will work in the same place with the same salary u can't say such stuff to any kind of major actually😔
I am a freshman in college in BME and you’re amazing for this video. I believe you saved me from making a lot more errors in the future. I appreciate it a lot
Hi there I wanted to ask if doing a bachelor at chemical engineering and then going for a masters in biomedical engineering a good option? Also if I do a bachelor in chemical engineering can I go into aeronautical/aerospace engineering at masters level?
thank you so much!! i'm a bme major going into my freshman yr and this was so helpful
I appreciate your insights
thanks for the video l really really needed this👏👏👏👏 l am a 2nd year bme student and l think a was making the same mistakes that you where making 😪
Hi Leon, I'm watching your video and laughing. And I can promise you, in 10 or less years, you'll be looking back at this video and laughing at yourself too. I know u leave in a society that treasures fun more than hard work. They front smart work rather than real work. But they forget that smart workers have gathered too much experience over time. Trust me, you'll be very grateful that you did all those extra classes.
"smart" work and "real" work are not mutually exclusive
@@leonzhaoo good answer
Thank you so much this video really felt like a senior giving advices to me. i'm a 2 year BME student and have been studying online these years and i'm kinda dissapointed about what i hadn't learned online and worry about my future.
Hello, actually I'm planning to take BME. What is your opinion bro??
@@entertainmenthub1968 If you want to be unemployed do BME
Bro you saved me from last year 😊 now I didn't go to BME infact in focus on bsc medical imaging technology which make so happy rather in bme i stress alots
well, you have a bright future, you can still stat making a change for the future. start from today, don't just immerse yourself in the regretful emotion
Hi, Leon! I am also a BME student at UC Irvine! Thank you for sharing your sincere regrets that are valuable to me because I find myself in your words! When you described stopping overtaking courses, I just realized that I had 21 units in the spring quarter! Hopefully, I will apply your experience and be focused on finding internships and conducting research since I finished my first year only! I wanted to ask you about making a start-up in the BME field! Did you or your friends had any experience with that? Did they attended the Y Incubator and what were their steps?
Nice! And no, I don't have any experience with BME startups
Hi Tair, I'm also a BME at UCI, but just finished my third year and doing an internship! I recommend you try to join a research lab-- it's a completely new experience and is something to talk about in interviews. Email professors, include your resume, make it obvious that you have read about their research and care about helping. Join BMES, go to networking events, and get to know your TAs-often times they know how if your professor has open spots in their lab, or what he likes to see in his class.
And apply apply apply apply. You can never apply to too many internships. Make it a habit every week to apply to another batch of internships, on indeed, linkedin, handshake especially. The internship I got I almost didn't consider applying for, yet it was a pretegious company! Interviews are sometimes with the directors of the department at big companies, so just getting an interview alone is a good experience! I made my resume stand out with a little bit of color, and a focus on lab experience and projects/competitions from high school. My GPA was good, but I don't think that was what mattered the most to them to be honest. They commented about how my resume emphasized my (little) experience during my interview.
In your second year, the BME classes will be worth attending, but I cannot say the same about the third year. This summer, try to get some experience, maybe teach yourself Solidworks to prepare for joining a BMES project. If you don't know programming, try to learn some Javascript or something-it will help make 60A and 60B way easier. Let me know if you have any questions, I'm here for another year!
(7:43) very accurate, I am a mechanical egnineer graduate(3 years work experince) , if you wanna secure that good job with good company dont care about graduation, no one care about your score, they care about work experince and in campus activites ,they didnt care that i went to the hardest and best ranked school in my country, i had equal chance to someone who went to a funky schools and graduated so much faster with no effort , that was my mistake too , if you dont want to get stuck in small company and having hard time to switch bcz the experince you gain isnt good, just have some work experince, even if you have to take a semester off before grauation ,im kinda stuck now i have been interviewed by the biggest compaines in europe for the last few months, but no luck bcz my experince is not related directly to market demand
its great to also learn from other failure, just see all success people is just one side (survivor bias) perspective.
Thank uh Dear Sir 💗💗🌹🌹🙏🙏🙏🙏
If you shift to Computer Science you still have Physics and Calculus to contend with which you may not apply directly and everything to your software engineering. Science classes, if you look at them at length and breadth are just very demanding.
Hey Leon, I really appreciate your honest heart but I wish to say that never give up on what you are doing. Most people study the field because it is lucrative but that should not always be the case. Be the best there is in the field you are in and the opportunities will always show up. I know we need the money to survive sometimes but stick to your original plan and follow your heart and intuition, it will not fail you. Here are a few things you try.
- Start thinking out of the box, in most cases where there are many people there are also fewer opportunities and probably high competition.
- Where you are in my opinion offer lots of opportunities for creativity and invention
- Believe in yourself and what your doing, remembers leading a virgin field is always lonely but in the end, people will always follow you. Believe and believe and work, work, work hard and smart.
- Don't be carried by what your friends are doing. You are unique and you put unique energy into the world, we are counting on you.
Good luck bro!
I’m a first year computer engineering student and my brother is a biomedical engineering student who will graduate in two weeks and he feels the same way. I know many other biomedical engineering students who feel this same way as well. Such a scary major.
You should have just went Electrical engineering, CE is the same as BME but only a little bit better lol.
Thanks for this super informative video it really opened my eyes on a lot of the stuff that goes down in the BME pathway. I myself am finding myself stuck between just obtaining a masters in bme and working in a firm based job vs going pre med and trying to make it through to a hospital, do you have any comments on what you feel is a better route?
Those are two different career paths. Really depends on what your end goal is and what you can see yourself doing. The questions to answer here are: Are you trying to pursue a career in bme industry or as a physician? How much do you like engineering? Do you like interacting with patients?
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I’m definitely one to see myself as an engineer more than a physician even and it’s been like that since a young age. But recently i’ve been thing about sure what jobs would look like if I’m not doing premed which seems to be what a large group of bme students do or maybe i’m just overthinking it 🤷🏽♂️
true legends in the real world, outside the academe - in having to work out of nothing perseveres amidst being broken. So Bro, for us who can't afford that study , Finish that course- meet us in need, once you finish med course. Maybe you'd need those techs to create similar things to function for a Need.
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I'm confused too as for nxt week will be for my entrance exam b.tech lateral entry in BME but i'm very curious regarding about future job opportunity so what your opinion shall I chooses bio medical engineering or Bio technology.
Yes I thought the same I do more internships to develop our knowledge
hey...I'm in 11th ..and opted PCBM ...and I want to do my further studies in germany...can u plz suggest me which job will be better for me..as I'm interested in learning new things...I'm having much more interest in research..and testing those on organisms....in drugs, vaccines, learning about genetics, DNA....
I'm very confused...so plz reply...
What can you do aftee getting this degree ?what revolutionary things in this field will happen in next 10 years?
I want to study BME and just asking what are the software that are used on this subject? Please answer as soon as you can 😊
Hi there I wanted to ask if doing a bachelor at chemical engineering and then going for a masters in biomedical engineering a good option? Also if I do a bachelor in chemical engineering can I go into aeronautical/aerospace engineering at masters level?
How much do you earn? I’m just curious because that’s also really important when it comes to choosing careers!
I am in my final year of BioMechatronics, I feel you. /.\
Hey Leon, I’m a rising senior in high school.
Throughout hs, I always knew I wanted to go to med school, but bc I didn’t rly think abt college until now. I defaulted to telling myself I’d be a bio major. And so I took classes geared to that. No coding classes, no physics classes.
Fast forward to my junior year and I take calc BC and find myself to really enjoy the class. I’m taking calc 3 and Diffyq my senior year and my senior year SHOULD BE relatively easy otherwise. What classes do you recommend taking in High school in order to gain exposure and/or college credit for classes that I would be doing as a BME student?
calc and diffeq are pretty foundational. Some physics experience is very helpful for college engineering. Having some previous coding experience always helps imo.
@@leonzhaoo thank you!!
Hello leon, i am in high school and i am thinking to pursue BME in college year. I don't have intrest in becoming doctor and also i have bad grades, is it good to take BME... Plz guide me
Hi,I’m an undergraduate in cs,but I’m not interested in it, so I consider a ms of bme. Is it easy to find a job now in us in this field?
Nothing you learned was wasted but can be re directed in the future along with new forms of medicine will be the designing of new technology to help the new medical break through so no nothing was wasted
Yup, everything gives you experience but some experiences are more beneficial than others. And I hope so!
Hi! Thank you, this was a really informative video. I’m currently in high school and am thinking of pursuing biomedical engineering while also wanting to go to med school (bme + premed). However, I hear engineering in general is an incredibly difficult field to sustain a competitive gpa in, so I’m not sure if majoring in a non-engineering discipline may be the way to go. Even though engineering isn’t necessary for med school, I also enjoy the field on its own and may even enter an engineering career rather than going to med school if I decide to later on. I’m kind of at a crossroad. In your opinion, was doing engineering worth it for med school, and were you able to maintain a good med-school-competitive gpa? Thanks in advance!
Thanks! My situation is unique in that I am enrolled in a combined medical program so my "premed" requirements are much more lenient and I don't have to apply to medical school as a regular applicant. As a result, it's been easier to maintain a good gpa. However, I do think it's worth it in your case if you think that you truly enjoy engineering and can see yourself doing it for a while. BME and premed also have a lot of overlap so that will also make doing both easier for you.
I studied at UCSD and it was very hard....in my opinion dont enroll in prestigious and hard programs for bachelor's degree... Neither prestige nor a low GPA do anything good for you...
How can I go I to biomedical engineering if I have chemical engineering background?
Hi, thanks for the insight. As a Biomedical Engineering Student, do you think it is possible to find electrical engineering/ mechanical engineering related internships?
Yup, it mainly depends on the skills you have and whether they fit the requirements of the position you are applying to
I also want to ask you, that I recently did my Bachelor's in microbiology and now I want to do my mphil in BME. Should I go towards, I am a little bit confused because I like maths and bio equally and also interested in engineering also. Can you plz give me some suggestions.
I'm probably not the best person to ask as I only have experience pursuing a bachelors in BME. That being said, BME encompasses many different fields of study. If you are interested in math, bio, and engineering, there is definitely a grad-level BME program that can fit your interests
So please do you think offering computer science at the university is better than offering biomedical engineering
I am a biomedical engineer and i regret every day. Wish i had enough guts to drop this program and picked something else
can you elaborate more on why you regret it? I'm considering applying for biomed eng. thanks
If you are in a thing world country, there aren’t any opportunities except for sales and service.
Salaries aren’t very good😊
Ya just go get a masters in mechanical , EE, or civil to make up for it.
Hi Leon, thank you so much for this video! I am going to be starting at brown this fall (class of 2026) and would love to ask you more specific questions about the biomedical engineering program at brown. I listed bme as my first interest, but am starting to become unsure of if this is the best concentration for me as I plan on going to medical school (but im not PLME). If its ok please let me know the best place to send a few questions that I have. I would truly appreciate some guidance on my course selection for the fall.
Send me a dm on Instagram!
@@leonzhaoo what's your IG?
I come across this kind of videos a lot where people talk about how they regret BME, and one thing all of these have in common is that the problem isn't even BME. Lack of information before majoring and then mistakes you may take as a freshman because of it is the actual problem we need to be talking about.
I honestly hate how people have the mindset of thinking that you have to be competitive in high school and University. At the end of the day, only how well you do and achieving your dreams matters. It has nothing to do with anyone else. This is why I despise the ATAR system, which compares everyone to each other through numbers. Everyone has different subjects and differing career goals. Unis should accept students on their individual strengths like Western Sydney University, not their identity as a measly number.
(Sorry for the rant, I’m just so put off by the selection rank system we have here in Australia xD)
i have so much reespect for you.
how did you land a software engineering internship??
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I'm applying for nursing in a German Jordanian University, i was told that Bio Medical Engineering was good too, so I would like to ask you what would you pick?, nursing or bio medical engineering.
@@CherryDollish they don't advise going nursing because I will face rude people or sad cases
Hi! I have a question. When you talk about "customizing your major," I'm also majoring in biomedical engineering so, just curious is there a way to customize my major towards more a medical sense. Like you said how your friends chose computer science, is there an option to involve more anatomy or just medicine-related classes in my major?
Really depends on the school you attend and what the requirements are. I would say to speak with your academic advisors to see what can be done
I am a biomedical engineering student in my final semester. I’ve had classes like Anatomy, Physiology and Clinical Sciences. Do you think these qualify as premed. In my first year I also had Bio, Chem and Physics and even Engineering Mathematics 1,2,3&4.
honestly I am not sure because I am not premed in the traditional sense. I would check the aamc guidelines to be sure
Hi
. I am student in biology at maroc. I will to study engineering biomedical ???
Once you get your MD you can work for BME companies, they hired MDs, less so BME undergrad. BME has only one good route, the MD route.
I have a BS degree in medical lab science..and i have experience in medical labs... i wana change my major and pursue MS in BME... is that possible?!
Definitely seems like you have applicable experiences
Wow why are we in the same predicament ☹️☹️☹️
I want yo study biomedical engineering but I don’t want it to have any connection with human body like just the machines or medical equipment. So what i have to take or choose?
Same concern as you
I have a question how many classes did you take a week
I had every class at least once a week. Usually multiple lectures
4th year BME here, the main problem with BME is that you don't need a degree in BME to do BME. BME companies hire ME and EE to do BME, while ME and EE jobs don't necessary hire BME. Heck, many job applications don't even recognize BME as an engineering major. BME is a jack of all trades master of none and in todays job market to land a job you need to specialize in something. The main benefit of BME are the research opportunities, but that's about it. Just do ME or EE, much more versatile and can transition into BME later in career.
BME=Bad Mechanical Engineer/Business Major Eventually
I'm curious. I would have thought that if you pick this major you would have known or pursue a specific type of job that required this major. Do people don't do this before hand? It sounds like you had no idea or passion for a given career and just picked whatever sounded interesting to you.
My end goal was always to become a doctor. True, I studied bme because I was interested in it but I never really considered building an engineering career off of it.
Cool fact: he says this to get less competition
You can't blame everything on Biomedical Engineering. There are many medical doctors who are Biomedical Engineering who are actually doing stuff with the degree.
You really didn't give much thoughts to the course & the end game.
I went to medical school. I know there were times that I felt that I hated the course. I found the areas I loved and focused on them.
Hello Leon, I would like to know if you could guide me on this path as I am heading towards BME for M.sc and would like to know if its feasible as I have my B.sc in Anatomy?
Hard for me to say whether it is feasible. I would advise that you check the course requirements for your bme program of interest and reach out to the admin of the academic program regarding your concerns.
@@leonzhaoo thanks I'll endeavor to do just that
don't be JADED Leon!
Ok I will try not to be just for you :)
I noticed all your regrets are related to the practical aspects of education, i.e., a means to make money or to get the career you want. It doesn't sound like you enjoyed learning the subject matter that much.
I think it's possible enjoy what you are learning while also being practical. But yeah, being an engineer was never my end goal
Can you suggest some good TH-cam channels to study from?
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Is bme and biotechnology same?
No
Fkn Boo Hoo Pal
Bad video