I'm an adult student who does night course, I want to change careers into psych, but I also need to be able to help support a family, which means a grad school program (my wife will start nursing and I'll quit, enter grad school etc...)
Anyway, both programs I've been looking at are pretty competitive, and the school I'm in doesn't have any system for adult learners to get research experience. Res. Exp. is hugely important to have on your Grad School app, from everything I've read.
I usually ask each professor a couple of times a semester if they know of anything or anyone I could talk to to get experience, but having to work full time and such has always kept me out of any opportunities. I just started a research methods class, and I gave the instructor my usual spiel, to my surprise she immediately said, "You could help me if you wanted" the research is deep, pertinent to my interests and involves several other researchers, some of it is being done at the University of Chicago and I'll be going to a few lab meetings there and meeting some very published professors.
It may not be a big deal to anyone else, but it's a huge relief to me. If I can get my name somewhere on a published paper I will be ecstatic and that's a very real possibility with this crew.
I'm at work and on a diet but I'll enjoy some proverbial beers here!
:beer::beer::beer:
:beer::beer::beer:
Anyway, both programs I've been looking at are pretty competitive, and the school I'm in doesn't have any system for adult learners to get research experience. Res. Exp. is hugely important to have on your Grad School app, from everything I've read.
I usually ask each professor a couple of times a semester if they know of anything or anyone I could talk to to get experience, but having to work full time and such has always kept me out of any opportunities. I just started a research methods class, and I gave the instructor my usual spiel, to my surprise she immediately said, "You could help me if you wanted" the research is deep, pertinent to my interests and involves several other researchers, some of it is being done at the University of Chicago and I'll be going to a few lab meetings there and meeting some very published professors.
It may not be a big deal to anyone else, but it's a huge relief to me. If I can get my name somewhere on a published paper I will be ecstatic and that's a very real possibility with this crew.
I'm at work and on a diet but I'll enjoy some proverbial beers here!
:beer::beer::beer:
:beer::beer::beer:
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