<p>For the past summer, I had wanted to some research or work in a research lab involving the auditory system, hearing, or deafness, because I am deaf and wear cochlear implants. I could do those in either Boston or Philadelphia, but I chose Boston to work in. So, I looked around the internet, and it seems like those fields are heavily concentrated at Harvard and MIT. I had contacted/emailed those professors from MIT and Harvard Medical School mostly. and within the day I sent out the emails, I got a promising response back from a MIT professor, who said he wants to know how much I am willing to work and contribute to his project. After a week or so he come back from his vacation, I went up to Boston for an interview and tour of the lab (which was at a Harvard Medical School hospital). We had a tour, lunch, and had talked for hours. He had asked me various questions that seem to test how much I know. I guess I you can say I passed.
This MIT professor is part of the EEEC department faculty at MIT, but he stopped teaching 10 years ago (he has taught MIT for many years). He is working on the auditory systems of the an animal family, and had asked me to work on and calculating the data to be used in a computer and then, into a chart so we can analyze them and draw conclusions and so on. After 2 months there, he had put my name on the poster he was planning to use to present at a scientific conference for a week. And he will write me a letter of recommendation for colleges this fall.</p>
<p>So, guys, I’m just working under the MIT professor to contribute to his project (he’s been working on this project for about 18 years) and do adcoms like this research project to be on a ONE PAGE POSTER that details all the research stuff on it, not an abstract or long research paper?</p>
<p>I don’t know if it was published or not yet, but it was definitely presented at a scientific conference and included in that big book of all the researchers’ abstracts at the conference.</p>
<p>And I just wonder, will this MIT professor’s letter of rec help me to get into MIT and Harvard? I have no academic awards and I want to adcoms to know that I did actually help to contribute to the project. Essay anyone?</p>