<p>^ Published Research as far as I know is something based on which MIT Grad School tend to select grads for the graduate programs, or in other words anyone in the high school or lower undergrad (freshman or sophomore) level doing such a thing would be a huge achievement.</p>
<p>I hope I could have personally done something like that, could you tell me how did you go about publishing your own stuff ? I mean not what you published but the way you went about publishing it.</p>
<p>I think high schoolers who have research published usually work with local professors who coauthor the papers.</p>
<p>Could you tell me how do you go about publishing your own stuff ?</p>
<p>I have published a math lecture, but it really doesn’t count as “research,” since I did not discover anything new. I interned at a website that made me write a mathematical lecture integrating various topics under a broad subject.</p>
<p>^ Publish as in how ? Where did you go ? What did you do ? Etc Etc :P</p>
<p>Publishing research as a first author is pretty darn impressive, even as an undergraduate. Most undergraduates don’t publish anything even IF they do research for a couple of years. Even some graduate students don’t have published research until they’re well into their PhD program. Half of the graduate students I work with don’t have anything published yet (and these are students at Stanford/Harvard/etc). However, they DO go to conferences and put their names on posters and abstracts.</p>
<p>Of course, you can always publish your research in a no-name journal. The thing about published research is that most high school students (and even undergraduates) don’t have enough knowledge of the material they do research on to actually analyze and draw meaningful conclusions from the data that is gathered. I mean, you can probably state the simplest things, but the chances that you can look at the whole project at a deeper level is not very likely (there are exceptions like Evan O’ Dorney =D).</p>
<p>That said, don’t be discouraged and definitely ask your PI about publishing papers once you think you have enough data. Chances are, without his/her name on the paper, you won’t get anything done, so be sure to constantly talk with the PI and even the graduate/undergraduate students/etc involved.</p>
<p>@ptcbot I’m a coauthor. I did a research program and the research I did was something that my mentor wanted to publish.</p>
<p>Congratulations blob.</p>
<p>^ How to publish ? Some1 please tell…!!</p>
<p>To publish:</p>
<p>1) E-mail lots of professors asking about research and possible internship positions.
2) E-mail more professors haha (I messaged 6 and got only 1 response…which was a no)
3) Do the research
4) Write the paper…not as easy as you think
4) The professor will most likely do the publishing work and hopefully you’ll be co-author</p>
<p>I got lucky: my math teacher new and engineering guy who was willing to take and intern and he’s letting me be the sole author of the paper</p>
<p>^ thanks for the info.</p>
<p>I saw many of the phd students with whom am working with, discussing abt the publications etc. I know its so f tough.</p>
<p>Anyways congrats man!</p>