<p>I’m interested but I have no idea where to start. I’ll admit I’m not the best science student, but I’m still capable of doing research, would asking professors at the UMN-twin cities be too much of a reach? It’s less than 15 minutes from where I live.</p>
<p>^Go for it!</p>
<p>I dunno how ambitious I wanna go out of the 3 colleges in my county. One of them is a state university, the other a top 100 private university, and the one that has the most interesting projects but farthest away, and most intimidating is a UC.</p>
<p>How many professors are you guys going to email at one time? 1? 10? 30? I don’t know how many to start off with.</p>
<p>Good question. I’m going to e-mail 1 at first, because if I emailed more than 1, more than 1 might reply back and then I’d to refuse some offers. Hahaha I doubt that would happen at all though, I’m being unrealistic. So I’ll leave that for someone else to answer.</p>
<p>I’m just scared I’ll never get a reply. They might not even see it, or they might just ignore it, and I’ll be left wondering what happened.</p>
<p>^ yeah same here. I don’t know how long I should wait for a reply before I move on to the next professor. A week? A month?</p>
<p>Exactly. And also the university I want to research at is somewhere I actually want to end up going, so I don’t want to end up e-mailing my future professor and having them think when I’m a freshman in college, “Oh, that’s the annoying girl who kept pestering me when she was in high school. I’m going to fail her.”<br>
Haha, just kidding, but you get the gist… I don’t want to really give off a bad impression if I’m going to end up studying in that department at that university.</p>
<p>I’m currently finishing some CS research in the form of a project; I’ve got a good idea as to which project I want to do next, but I really want to work with a professor. </p>
<p>After finishing my current project, should I contact the professors immediately and ask for suggestions for my next project, or should I start a new project and then wait till I’m stuck before I ask for help? Is it OK to ask a professor to mentor a project which I’ve thought up myself and on which I may really not need any help?</p>
<p>Thanks :). Any advice would be much appreciated.</p>
<p>^Hey, just curious, what’s CS research?</p>
<p>Computer Science :).</p>
<p>“I don’t want to really give off a bad impression if I’m going to end up studying in that department at that university”</p>
<p>But it could go the other way, and you might end up impressing the prof and getting a really good recommendation that helps you get in.
Me, I don’t think I want to go to the schools I’m looking for research in. Well, I might apply to the UC, but I want to go faaaaaaaarrrrrr away for college.</p>
<p>@python wow congrats on already having research under your belt :)</p>
<p>sqdwfe13 you revived a year old thread, but it is still a worthwile topic. I have a couple of comments for you. </p>
<p>Have you ever seen the Johns Hopkins Imagine magazine. Each issue has a different topic they focus on, like Paleontology/Archeology, Writing, Computer Science, Art etc… In these issues they give some resources if you want to get involved in these areas. You might find some info on the website:
[Welcome</a> to <em>Imagine</em> Magazine](<a href=“http://cty.jhu.edu/imagine]Welcome”>http://cty.jhu.edu/imagine)</p>
<p>And I have learned a bit about the PdD process since my college senior will be going into a program this fall. There are several ways sciences PhD’s are funded, and it is usual for them to be funded. There are fellowships from the school itself, and there are fellowship from the NSF, but these are really competitive. But most people are funded through a TA and/or RA program, where you give some of your time, you tuition is waived, you get health insurance and you get paid, usuall for the 9 month school year. For summer, you can get internships or a TA or RA position. This year, because of the financial markets crisis, it seems to me that a few school are not giving offers as usual. But you can still get into a guaranteed 4 year funding if you are accepted.</p>
<p>I am less familiar with the funding for Humanities, but my impression is that it is much harder to get funding, and you have to really be at the top of the school’s pool. There are just fewer sources of funding. It can happen, though.</p>
<p>Gee, thanks :). I haven’t quite completed the first project yet, though.</p>
<p>Good for you, python38!!</p>
<p>Can anyone answer these questions for me: How often do you go see your professor to research and for how long? Do you schedule a certain time every week that you will go? Could I schedule a couple of hours on a certain day every week that I could go visit him/her?</p>