<p>@Cuca: On the MIT website, just enter “UROP” in the search box. Once you’re on the UROP page, click on “current students” and read the information. You’ll also see a link to current project listings, although as others have pointed out, there are many more available UROPS than are listed on this site (you discover them by talking with faculty/departments).</p>
<p>My daughter decided to look for a UROP for spring semester of her freshman year. After about a week of looking, she found her first UROP in January. She worked on a machine vision project in Dr. Thomas Serre’s group. At the time, she had zero experience in machine vision and was just about to begin taking course 6.01 (intro to EECS), so clearly experience was not a prerequisite. This summer, she found a UROP working on a plasma physics project, and since physics is her major, she’s thrilled. Since she has zero experience with plasma physics, I’d say that experience was not a prerequisite for that UROP either. </p>
<p>One of the reasons we decided to pay the tuition bills and send our daughter to MIT was the incredible research opportunities. Take advantage of them, because they’re not difficult to find.</p>