Starting My Research

More than anything else, this week was spent practicing and researching. By practice, I mean holding mock interviews with fellow classmates, with one being the interviewer and the other the interviewee. Even though the setting felt awkward and not wholly realistic to how our research interviews with professionals would go, it gave me a chance to focus on my hand gestures, eye contact, and responses to some typical questions I might be asked at Business Symposium. As we went through the process and progressed to actually calling "professionals," our backs turned to one another so we couldn't see facial expressions, just like in a real phone call, I realized just how difficult it is to concisely introduce yourself, describe ISM, and try to schedule an interview all at the same time. However, I can already see the difference in my composure and level of comfort in such a setting after just one practice session, and I hope to soon feel prepared enough to start making phone calls and sending out emails to the biomedical engineers on my contact list. Another important aspect of this week was beginning my research into the field of biomedical engineering. Initially, I didn't really know where to start, but I soon found this website that had a bunch of different articles discussing technological breakthroughs in this field. This coming week, I plan on finishing my first Research Assessment over the articles I found particularly interesting and getting my resume completely ready for interviews.