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   "Abe Kohen"  wrote:   
   >"rick++"  wrote in message   
   >news:f7422d8e.0403020736.1e4a853f@posting.google.com...   
   >> > Take Uncle Al's advice. Ask your department if you can place out of   
   >> > the elementary courses. And read a biography of Einstein. If you think   
   >> > you're bored, can you imagine how he felt.   
   >>   
   >> In most states there is public college with a research grad school.   
   >> Transfer there.  Sometimes you start taking grad courses as a junior.   
   >> A persistent undergrad can start doing research with a prof.   
   >> In fact, this is required at schools like MIT.   
   >   
   >I still think the guy's a troll, but you're absolutely right re undergrad   
   >research and not just at MIT. However, I did not know/think that UROP was a   
   >requirement at MIT.   
      
   It's not a requirement, but most departments require a thesis, which   
   one can prepare for by doing a UROP.   
      
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