I am sick and tired of writing songs about you.

MY INDEX FINGER HURTS SOOOO BAD.

Yesterday I got angry because my keys were stuck through the bottom of the basket on my bike and I got frustrated and hit the keys with my palm. This was a bad idea and I cut my hand on the keys. Then, after a few hours, my hand got somewhat swollen and my index finger is stiff. Boo on me.

I have been asked to discuss biomedical engineering because many people don't know what it is. So here it goes:

Biomedical engineering is (taken from Wikipedia): the application of engineering principles and techniques to the medical field. It combines the design and problem solving skills of engineering with medical and biological sciences to help improve patient health care and the quality of life of individuals.

Here at Illinois Tech we have three different tracks of BME.
1. Neural engineering (again from Wikipedia)- a discipline that uses engineering techniques to understand, repair, replace, enhance, or treat the diseases of neural systems. Neural engineers are uniquely qualified to solve design problems at the interface of living neural tissue and non-living constructs.
2. Cell and Tissue engineering (Wikipedia credit)- the use of a combination of engineering and material methods, and suitable biochemical and physio-chemical factors to improve or replace biological functions.
3. Medical Imaging- a discipline that uses engineering techniques to create new methods and improve old methods that allow one to (under relatively harmless consequences) look into the human body to see tissues, organs, etc. that are not visible by just the eye.

Often times, pre-med students will do their undergraduate work in BME. Because our faculty at IIT know a lot of our biomedical engineering students plan on going to medical school, all of the required courses to get a B.S. in BME are the courses one would need to take in order to attend medical school.

I might share more later, but for now I need to get back to the normal work of my days:)

I go home tomorrow! Expect a blog of epic proportions come Monday!