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<p>Well, corranged and GuitarManARS, banging on your profs' doors is a time-honored tradition that will probably never go out of style. :)</p>

<p>But what if...</p>

<p>Your prof is in Kansas; and you'd really, really like to get up close and personal with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
<a href="http://www.um-cern-reu.org/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.um-cern-reu.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>You'd like to learn more about polymers... at the Max Planck Institute.
<a href="http://www.stanford.edu/group/CPIMA/education/general_info.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.stanford.edu/group/CPIMA/education/general_info.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>The prof's office door you want to bang on is located at JPL, and you attend college in Delaware.
<a href="http://www.surf.caltech.edu/students/non-caltech_students.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.surf.caltech.edu/students/non-caltech_students.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>You'd like to practice your French, but your prof only speaks English and Swedish.
<a href="http://www.chem.ufl.edu/%7Ereu/main/index_fr.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.chem.ufl.edu/~reu/main/index_fr.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>The best part of an REU is the dimension it adds to the UG experience. No school has every single piece of equipment or every researcher in every discipline. No school can be both a research uni and a LAC. No school can be every place in the US and the world at the same time. REUs allow students, for a summer, to step outside the familiar -- even if it's a well-loved familiar -- or to come back and travel the road not taken.</p>

<p>And don't underestimate the opportunities for publication, GuitarManARS. Good students do their homework, right? ;)</p>