<p>Honestly, how do you? I supposedly live in an area where tons of research is going on, the Silicon Valley, and yet I cant find any ads in newspapers or online. I've emailed one stanford professor already but he is away on vacation so his email gave me an autoresponse of "I iwll be away until July 7". Its already late into summer, I dont know what to do!! Any tips please?</p>
<p>I think you should check with your school. Then just mass emailing people....</p>
<p>email lotsa professors...... dont just email one..</p>
<p>personal connections</p>
<p>email professors</p>
<h1>1 Way: Through your school. Keep your eyes/ears open for announcements/postings, especially with the guidance department. even better: speak with teachers at your school who teach subjects in the arenas you're looking at landing an internship in. they are likely to have information either from a)emails/letters that are directed to them and b)personal connections. i got my research internships for this summer and last summer at brookhaven national laboratories by establishing a good repoire with my physics teacher, who is is a fixture at BNL.</h1>
<h1>2 Way: email not one, not two but as many professors as you possibly can. if you cast a wide enough net, you are bound to get a few high-quality replies. what's more, you may be able to comprare opportunities and select the one that best suits what you're looking for.</h1>
<p>i must be honest with you.......like you said, it is a bit late in the game. you should have been thinking about this several months ago.</p>
<p>i emailed 40 profs. 5 responded.</p>
<p>what exactly will you do as an internship during the summer witha professor, if i might ask.</p>
<p>When e-mailing professors, make sure that your copies of the e-mails are Blind CCs. 'CUz if the professors know that you're e-mailing a lot of people, they may just get lazy and all assume that someone else is going to take you. It's the phenomenon known as the 'diffusion of responsibility.'</p>
<p>I e-mailed 4 professors with BCCs, all responded, got 2 research positions.</p>
<p>dont you have to have an address in your TO field? whose address do you put in that field?</p>
<p>I'd really appreciate if someone could elaborate on this whole internship/research position deal. I know what science kids do, but I'm interested in the humanities.</p>
<p>Social Pariah and Sim fish, what field were your internships in?</p>
<p>Me: Astronomy. Not so difficult because it's so much computer work and programming haha.</p>
<p>And as for the address for the TO field - I made a mistake and used one professor's address. I felt terrible when that happened - but oh well - things still worked out. Maybe try e-mailing individually - it will take some time but it's definitely better than a professor seeing that the e-mail was not designed for him specifically.</p>
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<p>seriously- is working with a prof. common? What sort of things do people do (i.e. do you see them once a month, a week? Do you ask them for guidance/advice with research/writings?)</p>
<p>You help them with their research... It could involve making simple programs thus saving the professors time,etc...</p>
<p>I want a huamnities kind of internship during the summer. Is it too late now to contact people?</p>
<p>My school offers no guidance about this type of things. I had no idea that high school students could do research at all until I found CC, and by the time I'd figured things out it was too late to try. :mad:</p>
<p>what kind of things would get the profs interested in your email? should you list your stats, or explain your interests, or what?</p>
<p>what are blind cc's?</p>
<p>Its where you can send out a bunch copies of the same email, and the people recieving the email won't know the addresses of the other people you sent it to (Actually, I don't think they'll know you even sent it to anyone else).</p>
<p>By the way, I thought these letters were supposed to be personalized? Like:
Dear Dr. Blah blah,
I was interested in your research in the field of _________. Etc.</p>
<p>How would you do that with mass emails? Or do you guys take a different approach? Also, how do you guys think they would respond to me asking for possible assistance in the future with a science project/fair?</p>
<p>Well, I secured my position as an intern through personal connections. </p>
<p>But does anyone know the necessary procedures for making this internship count when applying to colleges? I am so confused.</p>