>tfw want to contact professors and ask if I can assist in

>>8310716
Generally (say for chemistry or biology) you'll be supervised by a grad student or post doc.

Professors know better than to expect you to be able to do anything of value, safely, all by yourself.

>>8310716
Just do it. They know you're only an undergrad and will put you working with honors/phd students.
t. Undergrad research pleb

What is undergrad research like?

>>8310727
A window into the mind of the domesticated, fascinating

>>8310716
sheesh

>>8310716
You probably won't do anything useful. Most undergraduate researchers don't. However, even if you don't accomplish anything, it's good experience if you plan to go to graduate school.

You might even get your name on an actual paper.

>>8310716
Well, I have some undergrads doing some little useful stuff in my lab. Not common. Usually they cant do shit, but that's well known. Dont worry, go ahead.

>not authoring a paper as an undergrad

Never gonna make it

>>8310772
Primarily code monkeying, at least in Physics.

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I'm a freshman Physics/Astronomy major that is doing undergraduate research with my schools astronomers.