| rmg51 | Morning | 09:18 |
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| JonathanD | Morning. | 10:46 |
| teddy-dbear | Morning peoples, dogs, turkeys, hamsters and everything else | 12:13 |
| jthan | waltman: ping | 16:53 |
| waltman | jthan: pong | 17:08 |
| jthan | waltman: Soo.. I don't really know how you CompSci people work - but do you do any kind of active research? | 17:14 |
| waltman | As opposed to...? | 17:16 |
| jthan | Well - I didn't know if you just taught at this point, or what | 17:16 |
| waltman | passive research? | 17:16 |
| jthan | :-p | 17:16 |
| jthan | Well - we've got plenty of faculty here at CU that are "Associate Professors" or something of the like now that don't actually have active labs. | 17:16 |
| waltman | Ah. Well, there are some people in the CS department who are "teaching professors". They just teach. Others teach less and do research. | 17:17 |
| waltman | I'm working as a postdoc and was teaching one class as an adjunct. | 17:17 |
| jthan | Do you have any undergrads working under you, or is that less common at Drexel because of co-op stuff? | 17:17 |
| waltman | It's relatively common for undergrads, especially those interested in grad school, to spend a co-op working for a professor | 17:19 |
| waltman | We've got a number of undergrads working in my lab. | 17:19 |
| waltman | at the lab I worked in as a grad student, we had a few who helped us out setting up an experiment, but mostly it was just grad students. | 17:20 |
| waltman | it really depends on the lab | 17:20 |
| jthan | I guess where I'm really going is - I am currently an undergrad going into my junior year. Not in Computer Science, but... I'm just having a really godawful time finding any research opportunities, and my GPA after taking OChem and my other "Weed out" classes is... meh... okay. But nobody seems interested. | 17:20 |
| waltman | at Drexel? | 17:21 |
| waltman | CU == Catholic U? | 17:21 |
| jthan | CU == University of Colorado. | 17:21 |
| waltman | http://bioimage.coe.drexel.edu/info/ is where I work | 17:21 |
| jthan | So no, not at Drexel. | 17:21 |
| waltman | ah | 17:21 |
| jthan | But I'm curious what it is that I'm lacking, or what I'm doing wrong. | 17:22 |
| jthan | I've tried the in person approach. I've emailed. I've sat in on plenty of talks about the people's research and read their papers. | 17:22 |
| waltman | When I was an undergrad at upenn there were a ton of low-level research positions available to work study students | 17:22 |
| waltman | maybe try the department office? | 17:22 |
| jthan | Yeah.. they're kind of helpful. It's tough because we're so big and everyone in my major is like "I wanna go to med school" - so the rest of us get lumped with them a lot. | 17:23 |
| jthan | Did you know you wanted to go to grad school before you went to grad school? | 17:23 |
| jthan | :-p | 17:23 |
| waltman | yeah, but then I put it off for like 20 years :) | 17:24 |
| jthan | Haha. Maybe I'll take that approach. | 17:24 |
| waltman | I suppose you could also try chatting up the grad students. | 17:31 |
| waltman | if the department isn't being much help, maybe try the college of arts & sciences (or whatever it's called at CU)? | 17:32 |
| jthan | Yeah, that wouldn't be a bad idea. I just wanna get my foot in the door. I'm okay cleaning glassware. | 17:32 |
| jthan | Maybe I'll just try to meet with the department head and see what he's got to say. | 17:33 |
| waltman | or find a new professor who's starting in the fall and needs warm bodies to staff his new lab? | 17:33 |
| jthan | That would be a viable option as well. | 17:34 |
| waltman | but i betcha somewhere there's a list of profs looking for students to help in their labs | 17:34 |
| waltman | jthan: have you seen this? http://careerservices.colorado.edu/students/researchOpportunities.aspx | 17:37 |
| jthan | Yeah - I've played with it and even been to their office. They do a really good job pointing you in the right direction, it just honestly seems like most of our professors don't care enough to sit and talk with us at that point. | 17:38 |
| jthan | waltman: Okay, so meeting schedule with department head for next week - I'll let you know :-p | 17:46 |
| jthan | I appreciate your digging around | 17:46 |
| waltman | good luck! | 17:58 |
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