<p>^ It’s generally easy to get A’s in UROPs-for-credit. (Not impossible to get lower, though, from what I’ve heard.) A’s boost your GPA :D</p>
<p>so, UROP credits are easy A’s?</p>
<p>They’re generally considered to be. That said, I know of people who have not gotten A’s. (It seems that taking UROP for credit is a less common that doing so for pay, so my pool isn’t that large.)</p>
<p>I don’t think UROP credit is inherently an ‘easy A’, I just think that people tend to UROP in things that they enjoy and therefore they try hard at their research :P</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>My friend got a B once, and she totally didn’t see that coming (the reason was because she had to give a presentation at lab meeting and her adviser said that she thought that presentation deserved a ‘B’). True story - she was actually really ****ed…I would be too! Granted, this is the only instance when I’ve heard where someone actually got a B while UROPing for credit.</p>
<p>i see.</p>
<p>something i forgot to ask during the Biology Open House @ CPW</p>
<p>when do we do the project lab?</p>
<p>Typically junior year, although you could take it earlier if you had the prereqs, or later if you wanted.</p>
<p>Im not sure if I asked this before.</p>
<p>Which major has the most overlapping classes with 7? i am thinking it’s either 20 or 10-B?</p>
<p>10-B wins by also having overlap through 7.02/10.702.</p>
<p>thanks,</p>
<p>a question about project lab. if you are doing UROP say since freshman IAP throughout the years including a couple of summers, will project lab be necessary? im kind of debating on doing either pure 7 or double up 7-A and 10-B. either way, I’ll try to do as much UROP as I can.</p>
<p>It depends on what your goals are. If you think you’ve UROPed enough and you’re okay with getting 7A, then not doing Project Lab is not a big deal. However, if you don’t want a 7A and want a straight up 7 degree, then you’ll have to go through Project Lab.</p>
<p>It’s not a “necessary” question, but a “do you want to do it” question. Nothing at MIT is ever “necessary,” except the GIRs, the PE requirements, and the swim test. =p</p>
<p>yeah, is project lab technically a research?</p>
<p>^Agreed.</p>
<p>I’m 7A, and I’m doing fine in life. I didn’t have time to fit Project Lab into my schedule, so I just didn’t. I suppose a decent rule of thumb would be that 7 single majors should probably do 7, but 7 double majors are fine doing 7A.</p>
<p>can a project lab get published?</p>
<p>Obviously, if you do “UROP” project lab, whether you publish is based solely on your work, research mentor, and UROP lab.</p>
<p>I have never seen students in “true” project lab publish their classwork. Your particular research aim in the course, even if successfully met, is likely not to be extensive enough to hold ground on its own as a paper. And while the contributions of everyone in the class over that semester may be, not everyone is going to be interested in pursuing the possibility of a paper. Then, of course, there’s the issue of whether the work that goes on in project lab is the intellectual property of course instructors, etc., rather than yourself, of which I have no idea about.</p>
<p>Also, Re: 7-A, you’re going to get a lot of raised eyebrows if you’re a single major in 7-A. It makes perfect sense to go 7-A if you’ve no interest whatsoever in learning how to execute a research project, but I still don’t know anyone totally uninterested in research (and only majoring in Biology) who passed on project lab.</p>
<p>Thanks for the response. haha yeah, majoring in only 7-A would not make sense at all given that 7 is one of the more flexible majors.</p>