Ok, so I changed my schedule again, and I now have 3 days a week with a 5 hour gap between classes. Due to limited cores offered, I cant change this. How easy is it to kill off 5 hours on campus? I know I can kill a few in the libraries, and getting lunch, etc, but 5 hours with no car still seems like a lot of thumb twiddling. Anyone else had this before? What did you do?

get a laptop, workout at the gym, play sports at the gym, eat/libraries like you said, you can shower at the gym as well. if you want you can do homework in your break period lol

This is also a good time to do volunteer work or get involved with working for a professor or something, if that's something you're interested in.

find a quiet place and start doing that homework!!!!

Originally Posted by Taunton

This is also a good time to do volunteer work or get involved with working for a professor or something, if that's something you're interested in.

How does one go about working for/with a prof? I'd definitely be in to that.

Originally Posted by reeves

How does one go about working for/with a prof? I'd definitely be in to that.

Get to know your prof and what research they are doing. Go talk to your prof about their research during their office hours and tell them you are interested in working or even volunteering for them. Ask if they have any positions available.

Originally Posted by jhan523

Get to know your prof and what research they are doing. Go talk to your prof about their research during their office hours and tell them you are interested in working or even volunteering for them. Ask if they have any positions available.

That actually sounds like a great idea to spend time on campus . It's not too hard to go about doing that, is it? Especially since a lot of people could be interested in an opportunity too.

Originally Posted by ~*Sara*~

That actually sounds like a great idea to spend time on campus . It's not too hard to go about doing that, is it? Especially since a lot of people could be interested in an opportunity too.

Well, professors may have short office hours or office hours that do not fit in with your schedule. But with 5 hours, one of your professors if bound to have office hours.

Sweet. I'll look into that. Thanks.

Originally Posted by jhan523

Well, professors may have short office hours or office hours that do not fit in with your schedule. But with 5 hours, one of your professors if bound to have office hours.

I actually meant that with finding a research opportunity, not the office hour. But thanks anyway

Originally Posted by ~*Sara*~

I actually meant that with finding a research opportunity, not the office hour. But thanks anyway

Oh, I have no idea how easy it is to get a research position. I would think it to be pretty hard, you would most likely need certain skills that you probably won't have in first year. But there's no loss in trying.

Most research positions are taken up by thesis/graduate students. Typically profs don't trust undergraduates (especially in first year) to conduct research.

You can always volunteer to wash glassware/other basic stuff.

Originally Posted by jesus

Most research positions are taken up by thesis/graduate students. Typically profs don't trust undergraduates (especially in first year) to conduct research.

You can always volunteer to wash glassware/other basic stuff.

That's true. You'd be able to watch though right? You could probably also get a good reference letter out of that.

It depends on the prof/graduate students. Some people don't like to be distracted while conducting experiments. Most of the time it would be a graduate student supervising you and in most cases, the prof couldn't care less.

It doesn't hurt to try.

Yup I'll definitely be trying to do that myself.