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  1. Thanks for the advice! I guess as someone whose new to the process this seems like a much bigger deal than it should be. My primary concern is that by not sticking with this lab I may be weakening my application to any potential grad school. Jay's Brain - Thanks so much for the words of encouragement, I feel much better after reading your post. ballwera & eteshoe - You're right, I hope that admissions committees see it this way as well Cookie - I didn't expect to have someone babysit me, in fact there is one undergrad on my team who seems as if he can't function without help from his senior researcher. That is not me at all, I hate being micromanaged and I prefer to work on my own. The problem was not that I needed babysitting, I just needed guidance to get started. My team assigned me an extremely heavy task not a "simple and short" one, my PI even admitted that it was a Phd level assignment yet he provided absolutely no instruction on where to begin or how to get started. If you are implying that graduate level advisors simply hand you a topic and say good luck then I might have to reconsider grad school.
  2. I am an undergrad student with hopes of entering grad school next year. I have been conducting research at my university for almost a year and I'm really thinking about quitting my lab. I feel as though I have learned a lot from my lab but I have not accomplished nearly as much as I had hoped. I entered the lab with no experience or background on the topic. I had hoped I would have an advisor who would guide me along the way. My PI initially stated that he would be my advisor but as time went on I realized that he was not going to help me. For the first few months I asked several times if he could make time to meet with me and discuss my role and assist me with any trouble I may have. He constantly put off meeting with me and pretty much said "do whatever you can do on your own". I spent months trying to learn on my own and taught myself a lot but I realized that the learning curve was far too high. Eventually, I sought help outside of my current lab and found another lab doing similar work. I was assigned a grad student from that lab and he has been a tremendous amount of help, he has sat with me for hours explaining the many complicated topics. I tried to use the knowledge I gained from him in my current lab but unfortunately his work is not exactly the same as mine. As of recently I have become more disenchanted with my lab and my work. I notice that I am being compared to some of the other undergrad students ALL of which have had assistance in their work, they literally have senior level researchers guiding them through their work. I'm being painted out as the underworking lazy one of the team especially so since I have not actually completed anything to show. I am at the point where I want to quit my current lab and perhaps see if I can join the second lab for the school year. I'm concerned about making this decision because I don't think I will be able to get recommendations for grad school from my current PI if I quit and at this point its the only lab I have worked at for an extended period of time. Any advice as to what I should do?
  3. Thanks for the replies! I might give it a shot, I think i'm going to try to speak with JHU faculty and get a better idea of whether i'll be a fit.
  4. Based on the comments left on the other thread it appears as though dating in grad school is virtually non existent.
  5. I'm curious whether it's worth my time applying to JHU. I'm thinking of applying to their biomedical engineering program, CS or Neuroscience. My interest is really neural engineering. I'm currently an undergrad at a respected state university, i'm a CS major, with a 3.82 and might be below 3.80 by the end of summer if i don't stop spending my time looking at universities and start spending more time on my summer class, lol. I have not taken the GRE's yet but plan to do so by the end of summer. I have 1 year of research in robotics, no papers, two presentations, 1 possible abstract, and almost 2 years worth of internship experience in Software Engineering. I fear my stats might not be good enough for BME but might be able to get me in the door through CS or Neuroscience. Thoughts?
  6. I'm guessing your major is CS? Do you know what type of research work you wish to do?
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