<p>thank you …yeah I noticed the previous post about a second after I clicked submit.</p>
<p>do we need to have the school send an official transcript or just get and attach an unofficial one?</p>
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<p>Hi, I’m thinking about applying for the program to research psychology, but i saw the person from last year who researched Pharmacology/Neuroscience. Do any of you know what exactly she researched? and i have no experience in neuroscience, would that be ok? or should i stick to straight psychology?
thanks:)</p>
<p>taylor14, you should stick to whatever topic you are most interested in researching in. In this case, I think psychology is your best shot. I think past scholars have also done that topic.</p>
<p>Yep there was a psychology scholar last year. Her research has something to do with lab rats and uses protocols from psychology research. The Pharmacology/Neuroscience research is more on the biochemistry side of things.</p>
<p>nirvana meant his* research had something to do with lab rats.</p>
<p>thanks 
also, for the narrative… what does that even mean? it’s so broad i don’t even know where to begin… should it relate to the area i’d like to research?</p>
<p>Here are the titles of all neuroscience and psych papers from last year:
“PBR protein expression in cells treated with alcohol and cytokines: a study on alcoholism”
“Modified attentional set shifting task may differentiate types of errors in rodent cognitive function assay” (Intel Semifinalist)
“Generating mutant subunits of the muscle nicotinic acetylcholine receptor”
There was also a neuroendocrinology one.</p>
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<p>Exactly. Whatever you’re most interested in. Thank you. :)</p>
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<p>It’s open-ended for a reason. Write about what you want. I basically gave an overview of who I am, why I love research, and why I want to be in the program - as straightforward as you can get. Someone else wrote about a specific experience going to Chine. WRITE ABOUT WHATEVER YOU WANT.</p>
<p>Clark Scholars is just a very open-ended program like that. They give you tons of independence.</p>
<p>Did everyone last year have tons of research experience? And is it necessary to have tons of research experience. I am well read on the topic I want to do but I have not had any hands on research experience with the subject. Although I have done research reports on it. I want to do this program for the research experience I lack. Do you know if they take that into account or do they only take the most experienced people?</p>
<p>No. It is not necessary to have any formal research experience, though participation in science related stuff before the program helps, and so does having enthusiasm and some idea/basic knowledge of the field your interested in. So no, they don’t just take the most experienced people. It’s holistic. Scores/transcript is very important but so are your recs and your essay :).</p>
<p>hi! so i applied to tasp and looking at clark as a backup. i have a few questions for people who have been to the program:
- what did u gain from the program academically
- what did u love about it
- what did u hate about it
- how is texas tech as a location?
- does 7 weeks feel too long?
- how hard is the app process?</p>
<p>THANKS!</p>
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<p>I wouldn’t exactly call it ‘backup’.</p>
<p>@Nadia: We are on the same boat! I will probably apply to very humanity type and I feel like picturing myself doing research in the library instead of the lab. I hope it is an option.</p>
<p>yea thats something i want to ask about too.
and i know its also very selective and not backup its just that i applied to tasp first</p>
<p>so past clark scholars - for humanities subjects (english, history, philosophy, etc) what is the research process like?</p>
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<p>The TTU library is pretty amazing, and it’s huge. The downside is that there’s only one. Your mentor is given $800 to spend on resources for you though, so you can probably buy anything they don’t have.</p>
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<p>There has been a history Clark Scholar in recent memory (last year, actually), but I just don’t really know. Don’t worry, Ms. Durham and Dr. San Fran are creative! They’ll find you something interesting, as close to your research interests as possible.</p>
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<li>Well, I learned tons of biotech, and I learned everything anyone would ever want to know about crocodilians. I learned a lot about the culture of academia, about paper-writing and submission, grant proposals, everything. I learned how to use a micropipette and an ultracentrifuge properly. I learned a lot from my fellow Clarkies. We all kept up with each others’ research. I read a lot of a book nirvanatear brought on recreational mathematics. I learned all about David Hilbert and Haruki Murakami and all kinds of other stuff. I learned a lot particularly from nirvanatear, who I had a lot of late-night discussions with. So yeah, one could say I learned something…</li>
<li>Aaaah so much! The people, especially. We basically made our own little culture, and I guess it’s just really hard to convey verbally. Also, if there were three things that set Clark Scholars aside from other summer programs, they would be: 1) the small size, which basically brought us all closer together, 2) the independence (our chaperone mysteriously disappeared a lot, we had a curfew that was never enforced, we sometimes had all 12 of us gathered in one room, etc.), and 3) the flexibility of research.</li>
<li>Not much. Food was inconsistent in quality. My mentor was cool and a pretty brilliant guy but not always available. Luckily I had some great grad students in the lab.</li>
<li>Hot. Dry. I would expect 85-90 degrees average. It’s fairly consistent, too. It rained a couple times, and there were tornadoes outside the city one night. (We went running that night. The rain was horizontal…there was pretty much no safety risk, though.) But generally, hot. Dry.</li>
<li>Hell no. Way too short if anything. I could’ve done so much more with my research if I’d had another couple weeks. Also, by the end, the Clarkies were some of my best friends, and it was really hard to leave. On the last couple days I basically broke into tears whenever I heard certain songs. (Yes, music was a big part of Clarkie life.)</li>
<li>I honestly have no idea. I was kind of shocked I got in. Statistically, it has a 9% acceptance rate, but I have no idea how competitive the pool is. Average PSAT last year was around 230, but I think that may have been on the high side. Small sample size=lots of variation.</li>
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<p>Once upon a time, it was my backup. But I didn’t know how awesome it was then. (I actually got a TASP interview, but there I crashed and burned…)</p>
<p>To add to my comment on weather, Lubbock feels like it has nice weather most of the time if you dress nicely, and certainly you’ll adjust within the first week if you’ve never been to the Southwest before. Once you get home, though, you’ll probably say to yourself, “How did I survive in that hellhole?”</p>
<p>It’s generally pretty breezy, and of course the low humidity makes it feel cooler than it is. I think we did have spikes of up to 110 degrees, though. The skies are usually clear or partly cloudy, so it’s very sunny. The clouds are these big, beautiful cumulus clouds, too. It’s so stereotypically Texas, except that, the program being on a college campus, most people are fairly liberal.</p>
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<p>The $800 is not the stipend, correct? Are you implying that I can buy tons of books and carry them home?</p>
<p>Do the scholars pay for their dining or is everything completely free?</p>
<p>well my mom doesnt want me to be so far away from home. oh well. i probs wont apply</p>