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Yeah I've heard that happens a lot so perhaps biomed engineering will be an option later on. Anyways, I'm not too worried about my degree in pertaining to medicine, but rather I'm curious as to what certain degrees entail (their websites only tell me so much). Especially with biomedical science...

Hey everyone, I went to change majors to biomed engineering, but unfortunately that major was already full... A&M does offer a major called biomedical sciences, but it is in the college of vet. medicine. It doesn't necessarily focus on animal sciences, but that does bother me a little that it is...

I thought typically engineers don't bother with a PhD anyway, unless they want to do research at a university, in which case you wouldn't have that high of a salary. Not that that's a bad thing, but don't engineers who work directly in the industry make more?

I actually shadowed an orthopedic surgeon for a day, and have volunteered briefly at my local hospital's ER. I did find satisfaction in patient relations, and while I don't think that'd be my selling point on the job, it seems very rewarding to help people in that way. I'm kind of quiet though...

Yeah I had planned on that either way. Like you said, I feel it might be a safe choice because it would satisfy both paths without banking too hard on one or another. Plus with biomed engineering being a rather new and expanding field, I could see a large amount of future opportunities being...

Okay, that's fine, I pretty much plan on grad school one way or another whether it be med school or actual grad school for engineering, physics, biology, or whatever. I definitely want to get education beyond undergrad.

Okay, yeah I looked at the biomed website and it said many pre-med students take that path so that might be a good thing for me to start with. Thanks for your input!

Thanks for the link. I'll look into that.

Hey everyone, I'm a senior in high school and have already applied and been accepted to Texas A&M, but I'm having trouble deciding what path to take. I've always wanted to be a surgeon because I'm fascinated by the human body and to be able to go in and fix the most complicated machine in...

Yeah Rush is awesome! I think they're coming to Dallas soon (that's where I live). I'd love to see them live!

Homework Statement Find the instantaneous rate of change for the function y2+(xy+1)3=0 at (2,-1) Homework Equations N/A The Attempt at a Solution I tried getting it into a "y=" format but I don't really understand how to deal with the y when it's squared in one part and cubed in...

I appreciate the link, but I already got it figured out and turned in. I don't understand what you mean by "nobody knows what a stratified sample is." It's one of the simplest statistical samples, I just didn't understand what method to use. Anyway, thanks again, problem resolved.

Could someone please help me?? Or maybe direct me to a source that could help? The assignment is due tomorrow.

Thanks for your suggestion. I checked that out, and the university I plan to go to (Texas A&M) offers biomedical engineering in the enginnering department, but also offers an undergrad biomedical science degree which is technically part of the veterinary school. I've heard it was a difficult...

Thanks for your reply! I too have noticed a pretty extensive number of errors in this book as you have mentioned, so thank you for the errata list! Other than that, I definitely like the layout and teaching method.

I'm just starting stats and we're working on just gathering population samples right now, and I'm a little confused on how to get a stratified sample. Homework Statement A club has 30 students and 10 faculty. (my book lists out the names of the students and the faculty so I can assign...

Thanks for the info. I actually am intending to go to med school. My ultimate dream is to be a neurosurgeon, or neurophysiologist. I'm obsessed with the science of the nervous system- I think it's absolutely intriguing and I would like to go into that branch of medicine if possible. On the other...

To Darwin123, thank you very much for such an in depth reply! It definitely gave me a clearer understanding and greater interest in the opportunities in the field. I'm a senior in high school right now, but I have taken biology, AP biology 2, chemistry, AP chemistry 2, physics, and I'm now in AP...

Thanks for all the replies! So in quantitative biology, would you consider it to some degree to be more abstract than traditional biology? Based a lot more on mathematical concepts and models? And would the molecular biophysics involve stuff like neural signaling or would those be considered...

Thank you for your reply! That info does help. I think molecular and system biology sound really interesting. I may look into those areas a little more.

I'm thinking about majoring in bio at college next year; however, I was curious about what kind of sub specialties exist out there, beyond undergrad education. I see on the forum all the time, people talking about going into high energy physics, or condensed matter physics, or field optics, or...

As mentioned before, a mediocre college "success" in the U.S. is considered a 3.0 which roughly translates to low B/very high C. So I would say that you'd be fine, but as far as where you're from and how the grading there works could obviously affect a U.S. grad school's decision.

Just out of curiosity, what kind of internship are you doing?

Thank you for the answers, everyone! And this is a good point about twins. I hadn't taken into consideration possible single engine ops.

I've noticed on a/c with only two wing mounted engines that they tend to be closer to the fuselage than the wing tip. There must be some reason for this, and so I guess my question is why? Does having them farther out on the wing create too much stress? I would assume if a/c manufacturers could...

Thank you! I think that's an excellent example of how that dividing property works.

Ok that makes more sense. I think I was looking at it too simplistically. When I saw the 1 in the equation, I wanted to try to cancel, but I didn't account for dividing there. Thanks for your help.

Oh ok I see. So if I want to employ that train of thought I need to expand the problem so it will work? Thank you for your help, that makes more sense now.

Hi everyone. I'm in high school still so please bear with me on the simplicity of this problem. I'm working through a calculus book and the trig intro section has a proof I know to be true, but I have a hard time following in one spot. Here it is...

I actually just started this other thread about a self-teaching calculus book that I picked up that is great! It's called Quick Calculus 2nd Edition: A Self-Teaching Guide by Daniel Kleppner and Norman Ramsey. I'm in high school as well, and I HIGHLY recommend it!

Awesome Self-Teaching Calculus Book! Hey everyone! Sorry, I would've put this in the learning materials section but it said I can't access it; I don't know if that's for admin only or what. Anyways, I'm going to be a high school senior, and I took heed to everyone's advice about gaining a...

Hi! I just bought a new gaming laptop and, not knowing much about what I was needing, took all the advice I could get on which was best. Like you I plan to use it for college as well but as some others said, anything that runs heavy duty games will run softwares no problem. So anyway, I...

By the way, to those of you who mentioned heat problems with gaming laptops, so far I've had no problems- I haven't even heard the fans at all yet and very comfortable cool to the touch. ASUS knows their stuff putting the fans facing outwards on the back side of the computer!

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I ended up going with the ASUS G75VW DS71, in fact, it's what I'm typing on right now haha. I was able to get a pretty good price- $1600 on ExCaliberPC.com and so far it's AWESOME! I've started playing Fallout New Vegas at ultra high graphics, and it looks...

Thank you! That was the perfect way of explaining it I think. I'd never really considered that in those reference frames, everything can be relative, but light would stay constant, meaning time would have to adjust. That definitely answered my question.

I recently watched a documentary on Albert Einstein that said the inspiration (or epiphany I guess) for the slowing of time as speed increases occurred to him while he was on a bus. It said that one of Einstein's day dreams, was that he would imagine himself riding on a beam of light. Well...

Thanks for your replies! I know that you don't have to go to Harvard to be successful in your field, I guess I just kinda got into my head that you got to be the best to succeed, but like you both said, I should pursue the great amount of opportunities that A&M has to offer and try to be the...

Is Texas A&M University a "Good School" Hi everyone, I'm going to be a senior in high school this year and will probably be attending Texas A&M pursuing a major in bio or physics the year after that when I go to college. I'm kind of upset that I feel like I've "wasted" my time in high school...

Yes that's actually true. I spoke to a psychologist who said that up until around age 3, the brain is still, as you said, 'programming' itself- learning about the physical world around it and adapting to those laws. That's why you have to be careful with babies and stairs and so on because they...

Thank you very much, everyone, for your responses and all the links. They've really helped and have been very interesting aspects of biology (and physics/math).

Thanks for your response. To clarify, I don't think it SHOULD necessarily, I was just curious whether some of these properties, theories, and behaviors of what has been considered strictly high energy physics (or something of the like) have ever been used to explain or inspire the explanation of...

I wish I were a derivative, because I'd like to lay my tangent to your curve. That dress would look even better accelerating towards my bedroom floor at 9.8 m/s2 Can I be the phasor to your electron and take you to an excited state? Everyone knows its not the size of the vector that...

Well I can see your point about scale issues as well as temp. dif. and wind, etc., however the acceleration time was not included in the test. They accelerated on the reg. gas tank then switched over to their gas tank that was actually being measured when 60mph was achieved. The car was then...

I'd definitely consider myself a more independent person, so that helps. Thanks for the reply!

No way! Metal is my favorite as well but I thought on these forums I'd be a loner on that haha. Thrash metal specifically is some of my favorite especially Slayer, Exodus, Testament, and Metallica (even though they're not strictly metal anymore) as well as some industrial stuff like Rammstein...

I'm curious as to what all the science lovers on physics forums like to listen to. Feel free to throw in whatever styles or genres you like as well.

Sorry I didn't make that clear. I mean med school pre-reqs require a good deal of math that I didn't see in the practice itself, but I think I'm a little more clear on the subject now.

Thank you very much for such an in depth reply! That was exactly the kind of info I was looking for. You definitely helped clear that up for me.

Thanks for the reply! Yeah I hadn't considered photosynthesis, but that's a good point about using light to excite bio-molecules, esp. in those kind of light dependent reactions.

Thanks for the advice! I'll check out some of those forums.