Recent content by eliza_

Definitely don't contact anyone higher up than a professor, because a) they probably don't have time to answer your email and b) they probably don't really know who in the department would be willing to take you. Instead, read up carefully on what certain labs do, and send a well-written and...

I wouldn't quite say that. It is probably near impossible or certainly impossible to do advanced physics research as a high school student, and it would be naive to expect a priori that you will be able to do "research" in the sense of making a significant contribution of your own (although...

I can speak specifically to MIT. a) admission: Bluntly speaking, it is brutal for international students. That is absolutely not to say that you can't get in, just that you are facing extreme competition. However, the international students that I know have a very close-knit community and are...

Poking around the internet a bit confirmed what I was thinking: CS is somewhat different than other fields in that conference publications are generally more well-received and -respected by the CS community than journal publications. I think the difference is in "presentation" versus...

Hmm, wait, that's a little confusing to me. I don't see people in my lab (and in other CS labs) submitting to journals often, but they submit to conferences all the time, and my supervisor certainly has many conference papers on her CV. They are peer-reviewed, though... as in, we get reviewer...

Hi, I saw a few posts similar to this one but I think my question is slightly different. I'm a second-year CS undergraduate who just coauthored a short paper (2 pages) to a conference that has an average-ish reputation; it's been accepted. I did a significant amount of work for this paper, so...