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Dear future undergraduate researcher

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I’m writing this letter to you because I want to convey to you the lessons I took away from my own undergraduate research experiences in computer science. This is a long letter because I wanted to include examples and context to the lessons. I’ve written about 6 different problems and approaches (labelled A-F) I faced during my undergraduate experiences. These are: A thought: my motivations for writing this letter. One dream I have as a graduate student is to be a good graduate student mentor. I think an important part to being a good mentor for undergraduates is having the ability to understand undergraduate students. I recently finished my undergraduate studies and before time dilutes my memory of my undergraduate research experiences, I decided to write a blog post about what I learned from those experiences. Diving into research (an entirely different career than what I considered doing) and computer science (an entirely different major than what I considered doing) was scary for m

Dear future undergraduate researcher, I’m writing this letter to you because I want to convey to you the lessons I took away from my own undergraduate research experiences in computer science. This is a long letter because I wanted to include examples and context to the lessons. I’ve written about 6 different problems and approaches (labelled A-F) I faced during my undergraduate experiences. These are: Problem A: How to find a good project? → Approach A: By finding a good supervisor. Problem B: How to find time to do research? → Approach B: By making time to do research. Problem C: How to trac

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