<p>I’m taking Organic Chem I now and I’m planning on taking The second semester and the lab. Also, I’m thinking about Biophysics because it seems interesting and the professor I heard is really awesome. </p>
<p>But all of these courses all count toward my BME technical Electives and I was told if I take any additional technical electives, they won’t count toward my degree 
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<p>The problem is… I want to get into a good nanotechnology graduate program or just in the nanotech field and I want to take technical electives that represent that passion but these will count because i’m taking them first. Should I not take them then or take them at a later date and take the other upper level tech. electives first (but that will prob be in my senior year :/) or should i take these courses and still take the others even if they don’t count?</p>
<p>If you plan on taking all of those courses anyway, then it doesn’t matter what order you take them in. Just because they won’t officially count towards your degree doesn’t mean they won’t show up on your transcript. They will. Regardless of whether it counted as part of your degree requirements, the adcoms will still see that you took those classes and have that particular set of skills from those classes. In fact, it might even be more impressive since you went above and beyond to take those classes.</p>
<p>They’ll likely count as “Free Elective” classes. I took around double the number of technical electives I needed to in order to graduate, and that’s where all of mine fell. I did wind up having to take some joke class my last semester in order to fill up my non-technical electives, though.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot! Yay! I’m happy. </p>
<p>In order not to waste another thread, I have a question: </p>
<p>What would be the best technical electives I could take if I want to do something with particles, nanotechnology in Biomedical Applications, Quantum level particles, etc… ?</p>
<p>My BME curriculum is [Academics</a> - Bachelor - Course Curriculum - Department of Biomedical Engineering - CCNY - CUNY](<a href=“http://bme.ccny.cuny.edu/academics/bachelor/curriculum.php]Academics”>http://bme.ccny.cuny.edu/academics/bachelor/curriculum.php) under current courses and prerequisities. </p>
<p>So far I’m going to take:
Organic Chem I & II /Lab I
Bio Chem I
Physical Chem I& II</p>
<p>Should I take classes in microfibrication or nanotechnology? Someone told me that I should continue with Transport Phemona II and Thermodynamics II. </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I’d say take whatever interests you the most and you can handle. I took a ton of classes in electricity, magnetism, and solid state mechanics expecting to be doing semiconductors in grad school, but I wound up finding I didn’t enjoy that research and am working on a completely different class of materials. My education wasn’t a waste, though, since a lot of the topics covered in those classes can be applied to completely different situations that I’m facing now.</p>