summer research @ stanford...should I go?

Van2010
Sun, 08 Feb 2009 03:21:17 +0000

You are a Canadian university student who has the opportunity to get a taste of the Stanford campus, university life in the US, to do research with a university professor at a world-renowned university and all you are thinking about is your social life, beach parties, Greek life while there? Grow up! Do it for the experience, do it for the knowledge you’ll gain, do it for the fact that it will look good on your resume. It is only 4 months of your life. Take your blinders off and look at the big picture - unless money is a major factor. Stanford is nothing like UBC or Univ of Toronto, Queens, or Western or wherever it is that you are now! Sometimes when opportunities come to us too easily, we don’t appreciate them. Others might give an arm and a leg for this type of opportunity.