<p>how about an internship for political science/international relations?
how should i approach the professor?</p>
<p>Thank you very much for starting this wonderful tread. I’ve read it all and it answered a lot of my questions. But I still have a few.</p>
<p>I’m an international student from Belgium and this summer I’m going to the Harvard Secondary School Program (SSP) (courses: International Law and Macroeconomics) and I’m a senior in high school. My interests are computer science, law and econmics. But I was wondering if I should ask some professors from Harvard this summer if could do an internship with them next year. Because then I would be able to have a conversation with them etc… Should I do this or is it to early to ask?
Thank you very much!</p>
<p>I meant junior, (this summer a rising senior).</p>
<p>Is it too late to contact professors?</p>
<p>Where did you so econ research? I got an opportunity at Columbia,but due to housing conflicts, can’t go, and I’ve been dying to find one nearby</p>
<p>Thanks for this thread! Its thanks to you, 082349, that I have a few internships over the summer (unpaid 
) in physics and astrophysics.</p>
<p>wow, great thread,</p>
<p>how did you guys know who to email??? like how did you know which people were professors at the university u applied to? should I make a visit to the place first? </p>
<p>I went online and found a research topic I might be interested in, so I looked up the departments at a local university, but I didn’t know where to go from there…</p>
<p>I see names followed by titles like dean, assistant director, technical coordinator, etc… which should I email, does the title have to explicitly say “professor”. thanks!</p>
<p>Well, to clarify, I’m not applying to colleges yet. I just emailed some people at Cornell and Ithaca College. A lot of people, like 70. Got like 15 replies. </p>
<p>Most colleges have pages for each professor stating their research interests. I think, if you nose around a little more on their website, you’ll find individual pages.</p>
<p>ahhhh!!! so excited, I followed the advice on this thread, and you guys will not believe it, but I was only planning on asking about four to five professors at a local university, and so I got emailing, and when I was in the middle of emailing my fourth one, my inbox ticked. I clicked and could not believe my eyes, the second prof. I emailed said that he would be happy to work with me and told me to meet him in two days at one of his group presentations! It was like he was literally waiting for my email( to reply so quickly). Any advice on what to say and how to prepare, cuz I honestly don’t have an idea of what I want to do, I asked to observe him and eventually start a small research proj. what should i do now!!!???</p>
<p>do i basically try to get a better understanding of what he does or just go introduce myself at the presentation. what should i do as well? conduct some research of my own or ask to write a simple research paper under his mentorship after observing what he does… </p>
<p>I never expected this and am totally unprepared!!! what should I do??? thakyou so much 083… and everyone else!</p>
<p>For all the people emailing professors next year, email them early, like in the winter, because most labs will be full by the spring. </p>
<p>However, if you really, really want a position, don’t lose hope. I started emailing from late May to early June, and I sent about 30 emails. About 12-15 professors emailed me back, but I ended up getting only one positive response. However, I was extremely lucky.</p>
<p>If you’re going to email, try emailing the head (although I doubt he/she will actually respond) and every professor/assistant professor you see. For me, the emails I sent to the head and a tenured professor were both forwarded to an assistant professor, who agreed to take me on and let me develop my own independent project.</p>
<p>So it appears that there are two ways to go, to have your own project (for science fair, etc) and ask the professor for lab space and some help here or there, as the OP was talking about, or, to try to intern as a lab assistant. </p>
<p>For those who did the former, how did you pull it off without advanced coursework in the subject? Did you just do lots of self study? Or was the research not completely “original?”</p>
<p>I really want to do something like this, but I don’t think I can do ‘real’ research without solid preparation. My plan is start out as an assistant and gradually move up to doing more meaningful work while learning how everything works and learning theory on my own time. Is that a good plan? I’m trying to help out with a project on gravitational wave detection, physical cosmology, or something of that sort and I’m learning general relativity to prepare.</p>
<p>Another thing I should have mentioned: what about a third option; join a current research project? Since research occurs in groups mostly, isn’t that a viable option? Of course, the actual work may turn out to border on lab assistant…</p>
<p>I joined a professor’s group and I’m working on a project as a research assistant…so it wasn’t completely original, but we are entering a science fair!</p>
<p>That sounds interesting. What science fair was it?</p>
<p>Does anyone know how email a professor for a political science internship?</p>
<p>Can someone PM me their email, mine is hazy to say the least, not enough passion shown in my opinon</p>
<p>Hello? Anyone there???</p>
<p>Hi everyone, </p>
<p>I’ve done a lot of research recently on potential summer programs, but my first choice would be an independent internship with a local professor. </p>
<p>I’m actually a freshman in high school, even though I’m extremely interested in normative and political philosophy. Is it worth attempting to apply for an internship, or would it be wiser to delay until sophomore or junior year?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>When emailing the professor, can you choose the dates of when you work with him or what? Say I want to work with a professor over winter break. How do I ask him that?</p>