Unit 7 您所在位置:Unt7/ Passage A/ Language Points Not Just a Job, an Adventure Undergraduate Research Sophia stella, a sophomore at Columbia's school of Engineering, is one of many undergraduates who become involved, one way or another in research performed at the university. Some do it for academic credit, some for money, some just for experience. Students and professors agree that an undergraduate research project can be uniquely beneficial to both parties. DPASSAGE A HOME PASSAGE B
Not Just a Job, an Adventure: Undergraduate Research Sophia Stella, a sophomore at Columbia's School of Engineering, is one of many undergraduates who become involved, one way or another, in research performed at the university. Some do it for academic credit, some for money, some just for experience. Students and professors agree that an undergraduate research project can be uniquely beneficial to both parties. 您所在位置: Unit 7/ Passage A / Language Points
Unit 7 您所在位置:Unt7/ Passage A/ Language Points Not Just a Job, an Adventure. Undergraduate Research T E Ideally, undergraduate research is an opportunity for the kind of intensive study that can expand the mind in ways traditiona courses can't. Economics Professor Ralph Edison says: To really understand a discipline you have to get the feeling that knowledge isn't just out there and you passively have to absorb it, but rather that it's constantly being created and we're constantly rethin king things.. DPASSAGE A HOME PASSAGE B
Not Just a Job, an Adventure: Undergraduate Research Ideally, undergraduate research is an opportunity for the kind of intensive study that can expand the mind in ways traditional courses can't. Economics Professor Ralph Edison says: "To really understand a discipline you have to get the feeling that knowledge isn't just out there and you passively have to absorb it, but rather that it's constantly being created and we're constantly rethinking things.... 您所在位置: Unit 7/ Passage A / Language Points
Unit 7 您所在位置:Unt7/ Passage A/ Language Points Not Just a Job, an Adventure Undergraduate Research When students see a discipline as evolving rather than fixed, they usually get a lot more excited about learning because they see that it's an ongoing process. He points out that research can be exciting because a research project really gives students an opportunity to answer real-life questions that we dont know the answers to DPASSAGE A HOME PASSAGE B
Not Just a Job, an Adventure: Undergraduate Research When students see a discipline as evolving rather than fixed, they usually get a lot more excited about learning because they see that it's an ongoing process.” He points out that research can be exciting because "a research project really gives students an opportunity to answer real-life q u e s t i o n s t h a t w e d o n ' t k n o w t h e answers to." 您所在位置: Unit 7/ Passage A / Language Points
Unit 7 您所在位置:Unt7/ Passage A/ Language Points Not Just a Job, an Adventure Undergraduate Research K0 Research also spurs independent thinking and in tellectual confidence in students. Amelia. a graduate student in computer science, says, You had to go out and learn on your own. You weren't going to be spoon-fed. Her fond memories of work as an undergraduate researcher played an important role in her decision to leave her wall Street programming job and return to Columbia as a graduate student DPASSAGE A HOME PASSAGE B
Research also spurs independent thinking and intellectual confidence in students. Amelia, a graduate student in computer science, says, "You had to go out and learn on your own. You weren't going to be spoon-fed." Her fond memories of work as an undergraduate researcher played an important role in her decision to leave her Wall Street programming job and return to Columbia as a graduate student. 您所在位置: Unit 7/ Passage A / Language Points Not Just a Job, an Adventure: Undergraduate Research
Unit 7 您所在位置:Unt7/ Passage A/ Language Points Not Just a Job, an Adventure Undergraduate Research E Arthur Hannah, a political science graduate of Columbia College says undergraduate research felt like a whole new mode of learning. Instead of looking for the knowledge we do have, he says, research forces students to look for knowledge we don't have. It's a process of looking for holes and trying to plug them, which is completely different from the classroom experience of learning what others already know. He also describes how creating a piece of original research instilled a pride of authorship"in his work, something he hadnt found in his regular classes. DPASSAGE A HOME PASSAGE B
Arthur Hannah, a political science graduate of Columbia College says undergraduate research "felt like a whole new mode of learning." Instead of looking for the knowledge we do have, he says, research forces students to look for knowledge we don't have. It's a process of looking for holes and trying to plug them, which is completely different from the classroom experience of learning what others already know. He also describes how creating a piece of original research instilled a "pride of authorship" in his work, something he hadn't found in his regular classes. 您所在位置: Unit 7/ Passage A / Language Points Not Just a Job, an Adventure: Undergraduate Research