What do you do at "research"?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Hey guys,</p>

<p>i'm currently a high school junior, interested in doing some research with a professor. because i came to the US recently, i don't really know that many seniors so i couldn't ask them for help, but i always heard them talking about internships and research. </p>

<p>Internships, as i know, are extremely difficult for a high school student to get into, unless you know somebody personally. so yea...</p>

<p>i was trying to go for research, but im honestly lost. what do you do once you "research" with a professor personally? do you just go to his place and see what he does? or do you just photocopy stuff for him and listen to him explain stuff? Or do you actually conduct experiments with him (in case of science)? </p>

<p>thanks a lot!</p>

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<p>A little late perhaps, but I’ll just touch briefly on my research experience. I don’t do research directly under the professor I contacted, he put me under his graduate student which is common practice. I started out just watching, cleaning cages, and sterilizing equipment (I work with lab animals), and just recently (after several months) graduated to actual testing and dissecting/experiments. As I am at the lab almost as often as the graduate student, and the most of any of the other undergrad assistants, I’ll be put down as second author on the upcoming research paper. Eventually I’ll be able to do original research, but you really have to work from the bottom up. Especially as a highschool student.</p>