An experimental linear collider.
After I achieve my Bachelor of Science degree from UCSB I want to go into graduate school. The problem I am running into is that I have no real research experience. While no physics PhD program says that they require research experience, but I feel that it is actually required. I do not see this as unfair, in fact it makes a lot of sense. Why would a department accept someone into a research position if they have never done research before?
I have excuses as to why I have not done any research experience. My first two years I did not feel I was able to do so, my third year I was at Edinburgh University where undergraduates do not do research. Last summer I applied to six or so Research Experience for Undergraduates programs and I was accepted into none of them.
Now I am trying to obtain a research position with a professor at my school for next fall. I am finding it difficult to e-mail a professor I have never met and ask for a job working for them. Hopefully I will get one. If not then I use the extra time to work on my graduate school applications and studying for GREs (though likely I will use the time to take pictures instead).
Walk the Grass 