This week’s Seminar Writing Prompt asked you to prepare (and bring with you/have available) a document which:
- Summarizes your science course equivalents,
- Summarizes your work outside the sciences,
- Describes your relevant project work, and
- Describes your co-curricular or extra-curricular activities.
During the Seminar time on Wed. Oct. 24 (which will be in the CAL), you are asked to work on one (or more) of the activities below. In your document, add in:
- Brief descriptions of what tasks you chose to work on,
- A summary of what you learned, and
- Questions that came up while completing your investigation(s).
Activities: choose one (or more) of the following.
- Interested in carrying out undergraduate research?
- In the Evergreen online catalog, look at Undergraduate Research in Scientific Inquiry or Advanced Research in Environmental Studies. Also do a web search for “Evergreen SURF” (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship”). See if any faculty are doing work here that interests you. See what background they ask of students hoping to join their research group. Figure out if you have that background or how to get it, or write down questions about how to get its equivalent.
- Go to one or more of the following REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) lists and explore. In particular, look at what these programs require of students and figure out if you have that background or how to get it, or write down questions about how to get it.
- Interested in going to graduate or professional school? If you haven’t already, identify one or two top graduate/professional programs in your chosen area. Look at the graduate admissions requirements; see how well you meet those requirements based on your past and current work. Identify any gaps and figure out how to fill those gaps meaningfully or write down questions about how to achieve those requirements. If you already have a fully laid out graduate school plan (good for you!), investigate why that program has made the required subject areas that are covered in PSAM an admissions requirement: what claims (if any) do the graduate programs you investigated make about what the study of differential equations, linear algebra, multivariable & vector calculus, classical mechanics, electricity & magnetism, quantum mechanics, or advanced physics lab will do for your focused advanced study in their field(s)?
- Go to a relevant professional society website and find their job listings. Examples of professional societies are listed below. Find interesting jobs. Look at required skills and background. Figure out if you have these skills or background or how to get them, or write down questions about how to get their equivalents. Examples of professional societies are: the American Mathematical Society (AMS), the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), the American Physical Society (APS), the American Chemical Society (ACS), the American Astronomical Society (AAS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), etc. There are many other job listing sites; feel free to visit some of those as well.
When you’re done, submit your document, which includes your responses to prompts 1 – 4 that you completed before Seminar as well as what you generated during Seminar (as directed in the instructions above), as follows:
- Make sure your name is at the top of the first page.
- Save the document as a Word document (.docx format) with the file name YourlastnameYourfirstnameWeek5 (e.g., Mary Golda Ross (who’s that?) would save her file as RossMaryGoldaWeek5) to your Cubby.
- ALSO, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, save your file to the Week 5 Seminar folder in the Workspace folder. This is how you will turn in your work so we can check its completion.