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I have never heard of a concierge physician service. where can I learn more about the issues surrounding medical insurance and its impact on patient care? as someone who lives in the US and relies on the healthcare system, I'm very interested.

Ask HN: Just graduated from college, don't know where to go from here.advice?

Just graduated with my degree in Bioengineering. Covered a mix of statistics, MATLAB oriented projects, and capstone design. My capstone design was about building an accessory for a child seat that would allow it rotate. Worked with a real client on this year long project. As you can imagine, this isn't exactly bioengineering because it was more of a mechanical engineering project.I don't have...

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Will do. If I was an EE, I would have a decent chance at finding something because it's a fairly specialized field. Same with CS. You tend to pick up skills and are much more valuable in the long run for your ability to program. I'm neither of those and now I'm seriously regretting this major. I seem to be a jack of all trades guy and that is making me concerned about my future. I'm not a software engineer so I can't exactly create large scale software with good coding skills and I'm not a hardware person either. I have some experience with arduino but that's baby stuff compared to what these internships work on.

I'm very sad and extremely concerned. I have worked on neural networks and stuff but I neither have the experience nor the necessary knowledge to work with, say, Microsoft Research Group.

Ask HN: Bioengineering Undergrad trouble finding internship

Hello everyone, I'm at a dead end here and feel that I'm unable to find an internship that will provide me with something I'm interested in.<p>I'm currently majoring in bioengineering in which the vast majority of my skills come from data acquisition and analysis. I can use R and Matlab to run statistics and I've also implemented various training methods in the realm of neural networks....

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Ask HN: Summer data science internships for undergraduates?

Hi, I'm currently an undergraduate studying Bioengineering and I was wondering if there existed any internships involving big data, coding (preferably in Python or using Matlab), and information obtained from sensors. I asked a question a couple of months ago on my future in this particular field and one of the users mentioned that I could look into data processing with data obtained from...

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I've learned a decent amount about sensors and just started to get into neural networks, specifically the Probabilistic Neural Network for binary classification problems. Can you point me in the right direction for internships with what you are doing?

Ask HN: Not getting anywhere in my major, make the switch to Computer Science?

Hey everyone, I'm in a situation right now that I feel is just disappointing for me. I'm currently majoring in Bioengineering and while I thought it was going to be interesting to me I discovered that my real interest lies in Computer Science (algorithms, hardware and software interaction,and the mathematics behind programming all the way down to the circuit board). I just don't have any...

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Re:Ask HN: Have I wasted my college years by commuting? on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @11:47PM (#6525534)
Is it possible to rush spring semester? I think I missed out on rushing fall this month. I guess my main concern is being hazed and dealing with all the negative stories I've heard. Are there any fraternities you recommend?
Re:Ask HN: Have I wasted my college years by commuting? on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @12:27AM (#6519392)
Thanks for replying, much appreciated.

I don't know...I guess I'm sad that my parents were against dorming since I lived so close. I try to get over the fact that I commute because I feel like I can do something for myself even if I am in this situation. I'll go through these periods in my life where I feel inadequate, dealt bad cards, and didn't take the chance to leave even when my GPA was fantastic. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate myself but all I have are grades and some great conversations with professors. Still...

Mind if I ask where you went to college? What are you doing now?

Ask HN: Have I wasted my college years by commuting?

Hey guys, I've been struggling with enjoying college (I'm currently a junior) because, long story short, I commute and didn't take the chance to transfer to another university. In high school I applied to 4 places and got rejected from Cornell and ended up going to a State University that I lived across the street from (quite literally...I can see the university from my house). I'm in my 3rd...

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Bioengineering student looking for some advice

Hello everyone, I'm new to submitting stuff on Hacker News so sorry if I messed up this submission somehow. Anyway, I'm majoring in Bioengineering at my university and I'm not sure what there is out there for careers in the field of Bioengineering.So far in my coursework I've taken a class on networks, signal processing and now I'm taking courses on Data Acquisition+Analysis using Matlab. I'm...

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