[09:18] Morning [10:46] Morning. [12:13] Morning peoples, dogs, turkeys, hamsters and everything else [16:53] waltman: ping [17:08] jthan: pong [17:14] waltman: Soo.. I don't really know how you CompSci people work - but do you do any kind of active research? [17:16] As opposed to...? [17:16] Well - I didn't know if you just taught at this point, or what [17:16] passive research? [17:16] :-p [17:16] 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. [17:17] 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] I'm working as a postdoc and was teaching one class as an adjunct. [17:17] Do you have any undergrads working under you, or is that less common at Drexel because of co-op stuff? [17:19] It's relatively common for undergrads, especially those interested in grad school, to spend a co-op working for a professor [17:19] We've got a number of undergrads working in my lab. [17:20] 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] it really depends on the lab [17:20] 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. [17:21] at Drexel? [17:21] CU == Catholic U? [17:21] CU == University of Colorado. [17:21] http://bioimage.coe.drexel.edu/info/ is where I work [17:21] So no, not at Drexel. [17:21] ah [17:22] But I'm curious what it is that I'm lacking, or what I'm doing wrong. [17:22] 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] When I was an undergrad at upenn there were a ton of low-level research positions available to work study students [17:22] maybe try the department office? [17:23] 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] Did you know you wanted to go to grad school before you went to grad school? [17:23] :-p [17:24] yeah, but then I put it off for like 20 years :) [17:24] Haha. Maybe I'll take that approach. [17:31] I suppose you could also try chatting up the grad students. [17:32] if the department isn't being much help, maybe try the college of arts & sciences (or whatever it's called at CU)? [17:32] Yeah, that wouldn't be a bad idea. I just wanna get my foot in the door. I'm okay cleaning glassware. [17:33] Maybe I'll just try to meet with the department head and see what he's got to say. [17:33] or find a new professor who's starting in the fall and needs warm bodies to staff his new lab? [17:34] That would be a viable option as well. [17:34] but i betcha somewhere there's a list of profs looking for students to help in their labs [17:37] jthan: have you seen this? http://careerservices.colorado.edu/students/researchOpportunities.aspx [17:38] 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. [17:46] waltman: Okay, so meeting schedule with department head for next week - I'll let you know :-p [17:46] I appreciate your digging around [17:58] good luck!