Hey everyone,
After much painful deliberation and confusion and hand-wringing, I have settled on a choice; I want to go for the Ph.D in Psychology. This was originally what I wanted to do. Anyways, now that I'm actually doing research on what I need to do to get into graduate school, I'm worried that I came a little late to the party (I'm a junior undergrad right now). The school I want to get into asks that you have research experience and letters of recommendation. The problem is, I have no idea how to get research experience! The school asks that you get letters of rec from people familiar with your "work". What work? I do homework and my job and that's about it! I'm not super familiar with my professors; I go to a huge university and my classes are massive. It seems that I need to get a "faculty mentor" in order to participate in research at my school (there's no program for undergraduate research in the psychology department unless you have a faculty mentor). I don't know how to do this. I've tried getting to know my teachers and everything, but how do I say, "hey, will you pick me out of thousands of students to be your undergraduate person?" I'm confused and stressed. Anyone who has navigated this path in the past and has advice would be very much appreciated