<p>I’m going to BS in Andover so its kinda hard for me to get to colleges and I’m not sure if there are any local colleges at Andover with a linguistics department. I’m wondering for my project (Trying to examine how long it would take for a language to be created) would a professor from MIT mentor me? Its just MIT along with Princeton are my two dream schools because I want to major in math/economics and I was wondering if someone there would mentor me or is it too trivial for them?</p>
<p>The only way to get an answer to this is to contact MIT professors in whose work you are interested.</p>
<p>True, I actually have a cousin in linguistics at MIT who although doesn’t know about my project, could hopefully hook me up…</p>
<p>Thanks jessiehl but is it abnormal for MIT professors to waste their time on me?</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s common for MIT profs to work with high schoolers but it’s not unheard of. I had a dormmate who had worked at the Media Lab under a prof’s supervision in high school.</p>
<p>I emailed the professor yesterday and so far no reply but its ok. If he doesn’t reply in a week I’ll just email my cousin and get her (she’s a grad student) to help me/mentor me. Hopefully thought the MIT professor considers it</p>