<p>Hey there. Congrats to everyone else who got in today! This decision-making thing is hard. </p>
<p>So I'm in love with Stanford's campus, with its vibe, with its social and ethnic diversity. But it's a big university, and there are a lot of grad students. If I want to study Physics with an emphasis on Astronomy, will I have research opportunities? Or will the much more qualified grad students be using all the great resources (which makes sense, but makes my soul sad.)</p>
<p>I'm weighing Stanford against Princeton and Williams, which have both emphasized research opportunities to me, but still. Stanford. Gorgeous.</p>
<p>Hi! First off, congratulations on your acceptance! I hope you’re as thrilled as I was last year when I got in. :)</p>
<p>I’m a freshman who recently declared a Physics major, and I have to say that I’m frankly quite impressed with the resources Stanford’s Physics department devotes to undergraduate studies. They offer freshman introsems by such accomplished people as Nobel laureate Douglas Osheroff, provide plenty of advising and lunches to get to know professors, and most importantly, guarantee the opportunity for prospective majors to spend the summer doing physics research on campus with full financing.Personally, I will be on campus this summer working in a Experimental Condensed Matter Physics lab. I got the internship simply by reaching out to a Stanford prof by email and arranging a meeting with him.</p>
<p>The Physics department is very helpful, and there’s a lot of exciting research at SLAC and Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Cosmology. You should check out the introsem catalog; I took one last quarter, and it was a really valuable experience. So far, I think Stanford’s a great place to be a physics major!</p>
<p>LOL in nearly the same boat. Deciding over stanford, princeton or columbia. Columbia has promised me funding and internships, but Stanford’s always been my dream Does anyone know where the best or easiest place to get an internship in engineering is? Or how to go about it successfully? I want to do it during the summer.</p>
<p>As a parent of another physics kid considering Stanford, I wanted to say thanks, Philoscott-that was very helpful. He is still looking at MIT, Mudd, Yale and a few others as an outside shot. </p>
<p>Are you looking at mechanical engineering, Wendeli?</p>
<p>I’m a Stanford senior in CS. I have one senior friend is physics who just got admitted to a PhD program in physics at Princeton. He had plenty of opportunities for research.</p>
<p>Research anywhere is more about your level of commitment. If you take a physics class, do well, and convince your prof to take you on, then that is when the real work begins. At that point, you must convince the prof you work hard, work effectively and are eager to learn. It is easy to flake on those things as a freshman. If research is that critically important to you, don’t flake and you’ll get the opportunities that you deserve.</p>
<p>Also, Stanford is super great about research opportunities for freshman. I found a research position for the summer after my freshman year.</p>
Does anyone know where the best or easiest place to get an internship in engineering is? Or how to go about it successfully? I want to do it during the summer.</p>