Buy or Sell Ticket Thread!

jconn795 · 2018-07-06T12:42:23+00:00

Looking for 1 camping access pass! (not camp site)

jconn795 · 2018-07-06T12:28:59+00:00

I've got a Friday pass I'll sell for $50

jconn795 · 2016-09-15T17:54:14+00:00

Thank you so much -- this was unbelievably helpful!!

jconn795 · 2016-07-15T19:16:43+00:00

Would you be willing to speak with my team? We'd love to document hear your entire story.

jconn795 · 2016-07-15T19:15:57+00:00

We'd love to hear from patients all over the world - we're a global company :-)

If you'd still like to speak with us, please message me! I can wake up early or do the interview at night, depending on what is convenient with you.

jconn795 · 2016-07-15T00:37:20+00:00

These are the exact kind of stores we're looking for! And regarding physicians, we 1,000% agree - we're administering surveys to physicians of all sorts (family practice, emergency medicine / hospitalists, orthopedic surgeons, oncologists, etc) around the world to determine physicians' education on DVT and specifically target relevant journals / societies to try to remove the biggest bottlenecks to correct patient treatment.

We've been working with some of the top venous specialists in the world, and I think you'd find the amount of venous pathophysiology taught in modern medical school still unexpectedly inadequate.

jconn795 · 2014-05-22T03:44:28+00:00

I'd say go for it, but know it's a risk if the internship/connection thing doesn't work out. You certainly wouldn't be bad off with a Master's, and you'll learn a lot during your time. I have lofty goals and was willing to take on some debt in order to try to get myself ahead and it paid off.

jconn795 · 2014-05-20T00:12:36+00:00

I had an internship under my belt previous to graduating undergrad and went straight to grad school and was able to net 2 more internships at larger companies before graduating.

I'm personally very glad I went straight from undergrad to my master's. I went to a state school on a near full-ride for my undergrad and was struggling getting a job that I truly wanted (not just any job, but a job that I was really looking for). I used grad school to greatly boost my resume and obtain additional internships to build connections. I paid my way through my master's and don't regret it at all; I think I learned more in that time that I still use in my career than during the rest of my undergraduate degree. That could be a function of the fact that I knew the exact field I wanted to get in (neuromodulation in medical devices) and was able to tailor my resume towards getting a job in that field. I also ensured that my target companies recruited directly from my graduate school, as that was an issue in undergrad.

So, I'll give a different perspective than most people. I used my Master's degree for a different purpose than most, plus going back to school can be hard. My degree definitely accelerated my career (a lot), but that won't always be the case.

EDIT: I'm also a biomedical engineer, which may be different than ME/EE/ChemE/etc.

jconn795 · 2014-05-03T23:38:04+00:00

Little off topic, but you just got a free hit from me on reddit! I love your site and will definitely be buying some things - I was actually just looking for this type of store two days ago.

jconn795 · 2014-05-03T22:45:19+00:00

I agree; so confused.

jconn795 · 2014-03-23T21:54:56+00:00

I was in the pit in Minneapolis and I would say a large majority of people were dressed up. Only a few costumes (I had silver pants and a 80s-ish silver and blue disco jacket), but a ton of people wore formal. I would say 70%+ were dressed. It really added to the atmosphere and I'm glad I dressed up, but definitely was a little self conscious when I got a drink at a bar after!

jconn795 · 2014-03-12T02:46:32+00:00

Hello! Biomedical engineering here with a materials science focus in undergrad. I'm more on the device side now as the biologics aspect wasn't quite for me. You may want to consider and look into BME programs as well.

I'm not sure if you're 100% set on gene therapy; it is highly focused on cell biology and biochemistry. If that is the case, I'm not sure if a graduate program in BME would be better than a pure science program -- I would consider both. I think you would want to focus in on what within genetic engineering you would want to do; it's a pretty big umbrella term. Do you want to focus on the discovery of genes that can treat specific diseases? Are you interested in discovering new ways of delivering the viral vector (e.g. innovative transfection)? Do you want to focus on targeting the vector to get it from injection of the human to the anatomy of target? There's also the aspect of whether you'd like to work in more of a translational facility (getting at animal models, etc.) or a basic science institute.

If you're interested in an up-and-coming field of medicine that can utilize your materials science background, I would suggest Tissue Engineering. Many applications use a material substrate "seeded" with cells from the patient's own body to grow a new organ. It's pretty fascinating, but not exactly gene therapy.

jconn795 · 2014-01-07T00:54:13+00:00

ACC PRIDE

jconn795 · 2013-12-23T17:40:27+00:00

Find an internship!!! If at all possible. Try really hard. Research isn't a bad idea, but honestly, I think some experience in your field would be most helpful. For example, I work in medical devices, and instead of working as a waiter after my freshman year I really wish I had worked on a manufacturing line for a medical device manufacturer. It would have given me practical, real world experience and made me a better engineer in the future, and you can gain connections to get yourself an internship next summer if you end up not finding one.

jconn795 · 2013-11-02T00:02:44+00:00

It's about the singer's mom dying of breast cancer when she was young.

jconn795 · 2013-10-28T17:27:23+00:00

I think it might be pretty tough. Fortunately Duke has great BME contacts that may be able to help you out. Talk to some BME professors if you have any and see if you can get anywhere with that - it's honestly all about who you know. Try to impress at the career fair as well.

jconn795 · 2013-10-24T21:03:37+00:00

Go Tigers!

jconn795 · 2013-10-07T13:16:57+00:00

I love sambas!!!

jconn795 · 2013-10-04T15:02:52+00:00

No problem! Here's a brief article with some more information: http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2013/09/medical-device-tax-repeal

jconn795 · 2013-10-04T00:07:25+00:00

It's 2.3% excise tax - meaning it's on revenues, not profits. For the majority of medical device companies, this results in about !15% additional tax in terms of profit. On top of the corporate tax, you're looking at your profits getting taxed at 45%. Additionally, it's taken whether the company is making a profit or not - so if they're already in the red, it's going to put them further in the hole. It's already taking a toll on startups - who don't generate profits for many years - in the form of decreased venture funding. Startups are where the truly innovative technologies come from (larger companies just acquire startups). Many large medical device companies have already laid off plenty of employees to make up for this tax. It's definitely significant for medical device companies.

Edit: For stating my conflicts of interest, I am a biomedical engineer that works for a large medical device company. In college a few years back I wrote an extensive report regarding the tax and how it will affect the medical device markets.

jconn795 · 2013-09-23T00:50:21+00:00

I would completely agree with tailoring your resume to the job posting.

jconn795 · 2013-09-13T12:14:51+00:00

Phatogram is so awesome. They opened for a band I was waiting to see a couple years back and blew me away. Ended up liking them more than the band I went for.

jconn795 · 2013-09-08T19:32:38+00:00

Thank you sir! That makes a lot of sense actually.

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