<p>I've been looking into this for a long while....i'm not intrested in medicine, but i'm really intrested in physics (particularly particle physics and astrophysics). I honestly don't know how people get reaserch and internships this early.....</p>
<p>i'm not even trying to do this as a hook for colleges. i legitimatly want to be exposed to the scientific community before going to college....it seems like a huge learning experience that would definitly help foster my passion for science. I really want to do some type of research dealing with physics. How am I supposed to gain the opportunity to work with a professor or someone like that to do actual, scientific research in HIGH SCHOOL?</p>
<p>given that your struggling with this (finding a research position, or going about how do so) maybe it would be worth it to evaluate your desire more carefully first. </p>
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<p>Okay so it may do that. Why do you want it to foster your passion for science though? Btw, are there any other things that you think you could do that would foster your passion for science?</p>
<p>i honestly want to learn more about physics in general, and i feel like a research op would help me do that a lot. </p>
<p>i’ve pretty much done everything i can school-wise. i’ve joined every REMOTELY sciency club (and am the leader of most of them), i forged my own science based curriculum (unprecedented in our district)…but i really want to learn more about physics. i mean sure, ap physics teaches you a lot, but you can only go so far with the basics until you want to learn about current problems in physics, or how a scientific researcher does their job.</p>
<p>I would advise you to just read the most highly recommended textbooks, and continue you education that way. You may not learn how a scientific researcher does their job, but then again I don’t know how much there is to learn about that. </p>
<p>If you are good at talking to people, and working with people, and so on (which it would appear you are given your participation in school), and are smart, and know what you need to know, then that’s all you need I think - everything else (all the specific things you would have to do in varied research settings) would come easily.</p>
<p>Luckily for you, you seem to only be lacking the one thing that it’s possible to substantially improve upon, which is how much you know.</p>
<p>(what i would really advice is that you keep an open mind about what you want to do, and why you want to do it - it’s not fun having to figure that stuff out later. Now, maybe you’re not someone that would not be prone to changing your mind, or be prone to becoming dissatisfied with the occupation you choose. Then this advice isn’t applicable.).</p>
<p>anyway, my thought is that aspiring physicist is, generally, a sad thing to be.</p>
<p>Have you tried contacting any professors at local colleges/universities?</p>
<p>@enfieldacademny: don’t be hating on us aspiring physicists. we’re good people, perhaps a little too nerdy 
but thank you for the advice. </p>
<p>@Spiffy1994: i’ve thought of doing that, but i have no idea what i would say. “Hi, i’m a student looking for research, can you give it to me?” sounds a little rude to me…so i just don’t know what to say</p>
<p>I meant, btw, a sad thing to be for the eventual physicist who was once an aspiring physicist, not a sad thing to be in other peoples eyes (though i suppose a lot of people do think being a physicist is sad).</p>