A Little Lost....

NovaLynnx
Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:35:15 +0000

Have you spoken to any of your professors to see if they have any projects you can join in on? Just because you graduated doesn’t mean you can’t help them to write a paper for publication or do some research to assist in a current project. I see it often enough at my school. I graduated last year and I’m still writing an article right now with a prof. I know a sociology professor who helped his student by having her collect data for a book he was writing, so she will get some credit there as well.

Are you looking at a PhD or a masters? When are the deadlines? Your GPA may make up for your GRE scores. It is when they’re both bad that you have to worry a little about cut-offs.

How good is your fit with Oregan State faculty? Are there at least one or two faculty members who are studying precisely what you want to study? Have you contacted them at all to see what new directions they might be heading in since their last publications?