<p>I am in my first year of college, planning on majoring in bioengineering, and I am premed. I really want to have some research experience this summer, and I am wondering if this is unrealistic. So far, the people I have contacted either have not replied or say they don't want me because I'm an inexperienced freshman. Should I keep trying or should I try to do something else this summer?
Any advice would be great!</p>
<p>Keep on trying! Kids getting into this even while at HS.</p>
<p>Well… of course they don’t want you if you’re a freshmen but as Miami stated, you’re best off continuing to look around. You probably need to start at the bottom of the food chain. Find a less popular lab on campus and offer to do the scutwork – clean dishes, clean up the lab (janitorial), enter data, etc. The last of those is really what you’re working toward at first anyway. At this point in your college career you really aren’t worth much to the lab other than a warm body that can move some stuff around for them. Once you show you are willing to work hard at the meaningless, tedious stuff (and that includes washing dishes), they will hopefully begin to give you more responsibility</p>