#1 Regret in Undergrad

valecollegorian
Fri, 04 May 2007 21:53:54 +0000

well prof’s don’t always take students who got A’s in their classes but they take students when the students know reasonably well about what they (students) did before and what they will be doing. otherwise, they’ll be concerned about the space availability in their lab and the person (graduate student or postdoc) who will supervise or train the neophyte undergrad. it’s more important to get the students trained properly rather than just let them break something or mess things up. a lot of my friends joined the labs by washing dishes/doing easy work before somebody had time to teach them how to do experiments. luckily i didn’t have to start like that… but the space availability and the person who have time to train the undergrad have been the most important factors that professors (at least 5 that I’ve talked to) think about when they take neophytes into their labs.

and btw, i asked all the prof’s from my A classes and I didn’t get into any of them.