<p>I am a fellow poor college student, aspiring to be a nobel prize winning scientist. Does anyone know of any programs that pay undergrads good money to do research?</p>
<p>Well... if you truly aspire to be a nobel prize winning scientist you would have taken the initiative and find research opportunities yourself!</p>
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I am a fellow poor college student, aspiring to be a nobel prize winning scientist. Does anyone know of any programs that pay undergrads good money to do research?
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<p>There are summer fellowships, but the process of attaining one is highly competitive.</p>
<p>I was able to earn one for the spring, which could be renewed for the summer.</p>
<p>A few programs that I know of --
NIH</a> internships in biomedical research
NSF</a> Research Experiences for Undergraduates
MIT</a> Summer Research Program</p>
<p>I don't know, however, that I'd go so far as to say that these pay "good money". Haha, if you're planning to be a Nobel-prize-winning scientist, I'd highly advise you to get used to making not so much money!</p>
<p>molliebatmit,</p>
<p>Does MIT offer any summer courses for non-MIT students?</p>
<p>hmm. can you apply to these if your a senior in high school? I'd love to try this out with or without pay. But are you already expected to know how to do your duties or do they train you?</p>
<p>Nspeds, not that I know of. There aren't very many classes offered anyway -- just a few intro courses for people who need to retake. Harvard does offer lots of summer classes through its extension school, if you're looking for summer classes in Cambridge.</p>
<p>Tangents, I know the MIT summer reserach program is open only to college upperclassmen. I'm not sure about the REUs, although I've heard those are very competitive. The NIH internships are open (I believe) to college students of all levels, although when I worked there the summer after my freshman year, I was the youngest one in my lab. They will train you -- it was my first lab job. :)</p>
<p>molliebatmit,
It seems that the MIT summer research program is only for underrepresented students. Are there any other research programs like this and the ones u listed above for non-underrepresented students? Thanks a lot</p>
<p>I don't know of any other programs. But I also don't think you need to be in a program in order to do research -- most of us MIT undergrads get our research jobs by emailing professors, not by enrolling in a research program per se.</p>
<p>Emailing professors, particularly if you do it early, can be a very fruitful research position-finding tactic.</p>
<p>EDIT: I just remembered that the summer student in my lab this past summer was funded through [url=<a href="http://www.hhmi.org%5DHHMI%5B/url">http://www.hhmi.org]HHMI[/url</a>]. I can't find a description of the program on the website, however, so I'm not sure about the details.</p>
<p>that's true, molliebatmit, but it's kinda hard to email a prof and get a research at MIT if you are a non-mit student.....to me, it might be better to do research through a program since they will set u up with housing and other important things instead of having you do all that by urself....correct me if i am wrong</p>