<p>I'm signed up to do UROP for academic credit. I was wondering how many other credits I should take. Like, how many credits is UROP normally? How much time do people spend per week on it?</p>
<p>Also, I'm so lost with this whole scheduling thing. Can somebody help me?</p>
<p>I think UROP is typically 3 credits, which means you'll have at most 15 credits of classes.</p>
<p>most kids take it for 2 or 3 credits. It is 3 hrs/credit so that's 6-9 hrs/week. Barely anyone does it for 4 cause that's a lot (12 hrs/week) and the minimum you can take it for is 2. You should keep in mind how much time you can really dedicate to your research cause the extra 3 hrs/week could have a big effect on your schedule depending on your type of research (I know it did with mine)</p>
<p>That's wierd. So, you get to choose how much time you spend on your research? It isn't like, "you need to get this done before Wednesday, so get it done"? Am I not understanding this?</p>
<p>Well yea in some sense. It depends on your research. Lets say you sign up for 3 credits which is 9 hrs/wk. So one week just might be an ordinary week in the lab with the guys you're working with, but another week might be something where you don't have to be in the lab that much, but your sponsor or w/e wants you to do some research work outside the laboratory. </p>
<p>As for actual deadlines, yes there are some too. Some for your actual project and some for the UROP program in general</p>
<p>i.e. for my research sometimes I needed to have HUGE amounts of data to analyze and make a powerpoint presentation by a certain date, so that actually made me spend more than 9 hrs in that specific week...i did like 15 cause it took so damn long</p>
<p>for UROP, you are mean't to create abstracts that are due the first sem, and for the second sem you create a poster for your symposium. (A symposium is almost identical to the science fair projects you do in grade school/HS or w/e)</p>
<p>so it all depends on how flexible and demanding your research is so it varies.</p>