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gfd43tg
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Hello,
I am on exchange at a university where there are not a lot of students fighting for undergrad research positions, so I have pretty much any pick I want in what group I want to join, coupled with the fact that I go to a famous University makes professors to want to have me on their team. The sad part is, the professors who research in areas that I like are adjunct faculty. There is one professor here in particular who is very famous in my field and is one of the most cited professors of his kind. However, I am not super crazy about his research. I don't dislike it, but I'm not particularly excited about it, more just neutral towards it.
If I have aspirations for grad school, should I just go with the most famous professor and deal with the fact that I am not crazy about his research, or go with a lesser known adjunct faculty who has interesting research (I have to go to a government lab ~1 hour commute just to get to the adjunct's lab) vs. research at the university? The hope of course is that I can get a letter of recommendation from the professor that I ultimately work with for graduate school.
I am on exchange at a university where there are not a lot of students fighting for undergrad research positions, so I have pretty much any pick I want in what group I want to join, coupled with the fact that I go to a famous University makes professors to want to have me on their team. The sad part is, the professors who research in areas that I like are adjunct faculty. There is one professor here in particular who is very famous in my field and is one of the most cited professors of his kind. However, I am not super crazy about his research. I don't dislike it, but I'm not particularly excited about it, more just neutral towards it.
If I have aspirations for grad school, should I just go with the most famous professor and deal with the fact that I am not crazy about his research, or go with a lesser known adjunct faculty who has interesting research (I have to go to a government lab ~1 hour commute just to get to the adjunct's lab) vs. research at the university? The hope of course is that I can get a letter of recommendation from the professor that I ultimately work with for graduate school.