Why is undergraduate research so important?

beth_s_mom
Fri, 25 Sep 2015 21:53:58 +0000

My daughter is a senior and is in her third year of doing research (CBH). She worked one year with one prof, and will ultimately work two years with another. I don’t think doing undergraduate research is critical for her - she’s not in the sciences, she’s not planning on grad school and she doesn’t want a research career - but I think it has pushed her outside of her comfort zone, given her presentation experience, improved her time management skills and enabled a closer relationship with a couple professors.