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Emma
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Bio medical engineering but I do not like a lot of years of studying and not good at memorizing things
I love math work but I hate computer work I wanna do stuff with my hand and I don’t want my whole work to be on the computer what is The best biomedical engineering for me and my counselor does not help at all I live in New Jersey and I’m a junior and I don’t want know what to do can you please help me any counselors or anyone please help me
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Jinhua Yan
Undergraduate Student (senior year)
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Hi Emma!
I'm Jinhua, an international student at UMass Lowell, Lowell, MA. I basically met the same confusing issue with you when I was applying to college.
Have you ever considered Accounting or Marketing as your major, more exactly, They both are one of the concentrations in Business Administration.
When I was a freshman, I actually chose Accounting as my concentration. At the time , I was not good at oral English and new to this country, I thought math and no much communication to people was the need of Accounting and the perfect one for me. However , after I took some Accounting classes , I just hate sitting down for the whole day to stick on the computer to stare at those numbers. Because I'm not into math , it's so boring ( tor me but probably not to you ) So I made a choice and I proved this was the best choice I've ever made! As you see now, my major concentration is Marketing now and I'm very proud of that!
Since English is not my mother tongue, I'd never forget I will practice all night long probably just for a 2-minute presentation in tomorrow morning class, but it's worth it and I really changed a lot, or you won't meet me here.
Generally, Marketing need us pay more attention on communicating with products and communicating, comparing to Accounting. Accounting needs less computer works and experiment time than biomedical engineering. Whether it is Accounting or Marketing, maybe you could consider Business as your major. New Jersey and New York have a lot great universities to go!
I'm Jinhua, an international student at UMass Lowell, Lowell, MA. I basically met the same confusing issue with you when I was applying to college.
Have you ever considered Accounting or Marketing as your major, more exactly, They both are one of the concentrations in Business Administration.
When I was a freshman, I actually chose Accounting as my concentration. At the time , I was not good at oral English and new to this country, I thought math and no much communication to people was the need of Accounting and the perfect one for me. However , after I took some Accounting classes , I just hate sitting down for the whole day to stick on the computer to stare at those numbers. Because I'm not into math , it's so boring ( tor me but probably not to you ) So I made a choice and I proved this was the best choice I've ever made! As you see now, my major concentration is Marketing now and I'm very proud of that!
Since English is not my mother tongue, I'd never forget I will practice all night long probably just for a 2-minute presentation in tomorrow morning class, but it's worth it and I really changed a lot, or you won't meet me here.
Generally, Marketing need us pay more attention on communicating with products and communicating, comparing to Accounting. Accounting needs less computer works and experiment time than biomedical engineering. Whether it is Accounting or Marketing, maybe you could consider Business as your major. New Jersey and New York have a lot great universities to go!
Kari Concannon
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Hi Emma!
I have a Biomedical Engineering degree from Marquette University. My bachelors only took me 4 years, so it was not any longer than any other degree. There was a lot of math, which I enjoyed, and most classes were not a lot of memorizing. They were more teaching you how to think and solve problems. There were of course some classes that required a lot of memorizing and I struggled through those - materials, biology, physiology. But there are tricks to memorizing things that you can find and you will get through. I will say, I didn't love most of my classes going through school but I got the degree anyway. Now here's the good news. Once you have the biomedical engineering degree, you can choose the job that you will love!
There are engineering jobs where you spend most of your time in a lab testing products, or designing products. There are jobs where you spend your time in a manufacturing facility working with how to build products. There are research jobs where you spend all of your time in a lab. There are jobs 'in the field' - meaning out in hospitals or clinics where you are working with doctors and patients.
Or you can go a totally different direction at many big companies. You can be a regulatory expert and help get medical devices approved by the FDA, or you can be a project manager or work in Marketing. I chose to go into Project Management. I do use the computer for a lot of my job, but it's not computer programming - it's used for doing emails, or having a zoom call with my team, or tracking my project budget or creating a presentation to give a status report to the leadership team.
If you think you can do the work, and you like at least half of your classes, and there is nothing else you are passionate about, my advice would be to stick with it and get the degree!
I have a Biomedical Engineering degree from Marquette University. My bachelors only took me 4 years, so it was not any longer than any other degree. There was a lot of math, which I enjoyed, and most classes were not a lot of memorizing. They were more teaching you how to think and solve problems. There were of course some classes that required a lot of memorizing and I struggled through those - materials, biology, physiology. But there are tricks to memorizing things that you can find and you will get through. I will say, I didn't love most of my classes going through school but I got the degree anyway. Now here's the good news. Once you have the biomedical engineering degree, you can choose the job that you will love!
There are engineering jobs where you spend most of your time in a lab testing products, or designing products. There are jobs where you spend your time in a manufacturing facility working with how to build products. There are research jobs where you spend all of your time in a lab. There are jobs 'in the field' - meaning out in hospitals or clinics where you are working with doctors and patients.
Or you can go a totally different direction at many big companies. You can be a regulatory expert and help get medical devices approved by the FDA, or you can be a project manager or work in Marketing. I chose to go into Project Management. I do use the computer for a lot of my job, but it's not computer programming - it's used for doing emails, or having a zoom call with my team, or tracking my project budget or creating a presentation to give a status report to the leadership team.
If you think you can do the work, and you like at least half of your classes, and there is nothing else you are passionate about, my advice would be to stick with it and get the degree!