Friday, September 06, 2013

[umyjymkc] Undergraduate highly risky research

Traditionally the undergraduate researcher gets put on mundane low-hanging research, and the tenured professor gets to do speculative Blue Sky research.  The thinking is perhaps that the elder's intuition helps increase the chances of success at what is already a project with a high probability of failure.

Consider reversing the roles.  The thinking is that undergraduate research rarely amounts to anything anyway, so why not go big or go home?  There is no stigma associated with failing as an undergrad.

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