<p>I'm currently a freshman and I have no idea how I would go about finding a lab to work in. I'm a student in good standing and am looking for advice on getting involved with a lab/research.</p>
<p>Could I get some advice on this?</p>
<p>Thank you in advance!</p>
<p>Go online to the bio website. Find a department doing research in the field you are interested in. Look at professors’ research interests. Find one that sounds interesting. E-mail them to see if they need help in the lab and explain your interest and etc. </p>
<p>Also works if you have a current bio professor that you like. Ask him if he needs help on any of his projects.</p>
<p>^That’s what I did. Worked out just fine. Worth noting that I agreed to volunteer/work for free, so pretty much there was no reason (other than lack of experience) not to take me on–no financial investment in this kid (other than if I messed up an experiment that then had to be repeated, meaning more materials or expertise were used…but that rarely happened since I was supervised so well). </p>
<p>Also repeated that process for finding docs to shadow (using hospital’s website, not bio departments) and eventually got involved with clinical research through one of the docs I shadowed.</p>