<p>so far I don't know what to do in this summer yet.However,I may consider volunteering at a research lab in a university over the summer. </p>
<p>But this is really me ''first, first, first'' time.For anyone who volunteered at a research lab before,how did you sign up your position?what university was it? Because I really don't want to waste my summer and spend all my summer starring at the computer.</p>
<p>Yea, I have the same question as yipyip0901. I want to volunteer at a lab, but I have no idea where to start looking. Any help? ^^</p>
<p>Prepare a resume, do some research regarding research projects in the given lab and get ready to discuss why you're interested in them and what you'd like to pursue, and contact a professor--they love all the help they can get, and it's a great experience. Undergraduates seem to do summer research as a given, so both time I was stuck with college students working on similar projects.</p>
<p>I did it twice. Summer before junior year at MIT and summer before senior year at Harvard SEAS.</p>
<p>Edit: And when I was at MIT I was doing theoretical physics so yeah I spent the whole summer sitting at a computer screen looking at MATLAB code, but it's nonetheless fun. It depends on the subject matter. Physics/astrophysics/cs - mucho. Engineering somewhat because of all the coding involved, and biology/chem usually notsomuch.</p>
<p>I'm doing that!</p>