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Bioengineering student looking for some advice

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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 also a novice in Python and I've wanted to work on a project to better my skills but I don't have the necessary skills for some of these big open source projects on github.

Anyone with experience in the field offer me advice? Should I get a background in Computer Science if I wanted to work for the more tech program oriented companies out there?

I feel lost...

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davidsmith8900
- A few questions: A. Are you undergrad/grad? If undergrad or in MSc program, have you thought of doing two majors and getting the Major in BioEngineering and then Minor in Computer Science or vice-versa? Just remember that getting a degree is more of a theory foundation while freelancing or working for startups is more practical. Also it depends on what your love/passion is, which takes you to my second question.

B. Do you have love/passion for BioEngineering or Computer Science/Engineering? To me both fields are great and both fields are promising in the future, but since we are talking about your career here (something that will last a lifetime), I'll pay more of my time to what I really love and then the less of my time to my second love or to what I have passion for.

Also don't forget that here are free programming books/courses/examples that can always help you build up your skills in coding/programming but as far as BioEngineering, you might need a lab, a license and other more expensive requirements to get you started.