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Observations and Interviews
1. Abigail - Course 3
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Ph.D, Research Scientist
Abigail uses referrals and UROP ads to find students for her UROPS. Once in contact, she judges by their promptness in response time. Both she and her senior lab members interview candidates to compare notes, resulting in a long process time.
Her biggest problem is her disappointment with the undergraduate students who are not serious about the research to be done. She feels that there is a lack of commitment and understanding of the research opportunity. If the students are more interested in pay, she takes it as a bad sign.
2. Bill - Course 2 Assistant Professor,
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Ph.D
Bill posts to the UROP board with project descriptions, but also gets spontaneous emails from students asking for projects. He also relies heavily on the interview process and will either do it himself or have other people on his team meet the candidates. He also feels that the time spent meeting students in person is longer than he'd like.
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She is also a teaching assistant to a class where she's able to find students with relevant interests. It's also not excluded to that class, but she takes into consideration certain classes the student has taken and how well they did in those classes.
6. Bob - Course 6 CSAIL Ph.D Student
Bob advertises to different mailing lists and the UROP board. He also participates in the CSAIL UROP project fair where different groups within CSAIL give an overview of the projects available in the lab and students can submit their names to projects they might be interested in. He meets with any student who is interested one of his projects, and if they have some experience and seem generally interested he will ask his Professor supervisor to approve him having a UROP student. Bob is mainly interested in gaining teaching experience and learning how to manage somebody so he looks mainly for people that he thinks he could work well with and that will give a good effort rather than those students that have the most experience and can produce the most output.
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