Duke vs UMich vs Cornell vs JHU (BME)

stevenpd
Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:03:06 +0000

I’m a BME at hopkins and I have to say I LOVE it. Now, I’m just a freshman so I haven’t taken any of the supposedly ridiculous classes yet… but it’s really not that bad with work and all. There’s lots of nice people here too. Everyones friendly and we collaborate on a lot of our work. The upperclassmen all tell us that they end up getting closer and working together as the classes get harder. I’ve never encountered anyone here being cutthroat either. The main reason I love the BME program is design team though. I got to jump on an upperclassmen team as part of a class. Each team is designing a medical device to benefit people in some way. For our project, we’re probably going to market and sell our product through a startup we’re making. I’m just a freshman - no other school is going to let you get that involved as a freshman. Also, if you want to do research this is the place to be.