I am currently a PhD student in the Microbiology program at MIT. I plan to stay in academia and one day become a professor, but I am keeping an open mind toward opportunities in industry as well.
Georgia Tech Biology gave me incredible research opportunities as an undergrad. I did research in Dr. Hammer's lab for 3 years and participated in iGEM, an international synthetic biology competition. Even when talking to other students here at MIT, my research experience as an undergrad was exceptional.
At Georgia Tech I was able to take three graduate level microbiology courses. For comparison, my program at MIT only requires seven total courses, and not all of them are specific to microbiology. These classes at Georgia Tech gave me a huge head start in understanding for my graduate program.
Take programming classes and probability and statistics classes. I think both in both medicine and research the data is getting bigger and bigger, and future Biologists need to be prepared to leverage this data. GT's math and computer science departments are extraordinary, and applying skills from those disciplines to Biology is very powerful.
