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On October 28 2011 02:36 ElementalZerg wrote:Show nested quote +On October 28 2011 02:25 JieXian wrote:
I more question. I've heard how people can get into programs totally different from their majors at a postgrad level. Like there's one physics major who's featured on a bbc documentary who's doing neuroscience.
It may sound stupid but ... Any opinions on the chances following up with neuroscience (cognition stuff, not finding diseases) but with a mechatronics (robotics/AI involved) engineering degree instead? According to wikipedia, neuroscience quite multi disciplinary.
I'll write a proper enquiry to some universities after my final though. Most definitely. Neuroscience is still mostly an interdisciplinary field right now, with grad schools accepting from a wide range of undergrad degrees. Computational neuroscience might be a good fit for you, since it does require a high level of mathematical understanding.
Future looking bright :D I was worrying a lot because every doctor I asked said that it's impossible to do it without an MBBS.
Thanks for the blog. Made me focus more on my finals and stop --- browsing TL hahaha oh the irony.
BTW I've always wanted to do psychology/social science/anthropology stuff but obviously it's ..... quite useless here in Malaysia. (Got to bad a backup plan.)
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Purdue was a great school, and I still talk with my roommate all the time. Aero is just a tough major if you aren't 100% committed since it's highly competitive. I went to a small boarding school for high school so those 600 student calc classes were odd, haha.
Yeah, grad school is long. Going to be about 23 years of schooling once I'm done.
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lol yeah I can see how that was a big change. And yes I think aero and ChemE are probably the roughest majors out of the engineering school.
When were you there? Maybe we overlapped - I graduated in 2007.
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I started in 2007, lol.
I stayed in tarkington hall my freshman year, that was the last year that it had it's own dining hall.
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Yeah the new dining halls are pretty nice. I was in Earhart for two years then I moved to an apartment on South Campus.
Let me know if you have other questions about grad school and good luck! :-)
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I would advise you to stay away from ph.d. programs in the medical sciences. I have a ph.d. in genetics and development and I can tell you that I don't know a single soul who has found a job. In fact Nature magazine just released that only about 5% of Postdoctoral fellows (these are people who already have PH.D.s and are working as researchers) become professors. THis, despite the fact that everyone and their mother wants to become a research professor.
What does everyone else do? Find something 'else'. They teach junior college (starting with very lowpaying and non full time 'adjunct' positions. They teach highschool (but not public high school since that requires a 2 year teaching credential) or they go to biotech (lol biotech ain't hiring).
Basically, if you pursue this career path I'm really sorry to say, but you have about a snow ball chance in hell of getting a job when you're done.
I don't mean to be so negative but shit, I would have KILLED for somebody to tell me this stuff before I wasted 6 years getting my Ph.D. and 3 years now as a postdoc with NO job prospects.
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It seems that your academics are very strong already, and you got a good score on GRE. I'd recommend you to aim high, while also applying for some safety schools.
My recommendation is to look for universities with strong medical schools to start with. Since your source of funding are going to be largely derived from NIH and these things are often correlated with the strength of the medical school, it's not a bad start.
But like GreatFall said, your future after PhD in biomedical science is very bleak. If you think you are good at math, try converting yourself into a more quantitative field.
I have not heard of any of the universities you listed except BU; I don't think highly of BU. As far as graduate school is concerned, looking at ARWU will give you a *rough* idea as to how good the schools are. I will link you the ones for medicine.
http://www.arwu.org/FieldMED2010.jsp
If the school you are applying to is not Top 50, I highly discourage you to go there. Your job prospect is bad already, so don't bother going to be bad graduate school.
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