Let the Search Begin!

Ohhh, the pain of trying to find a school that hosts a summer research program for undergraduates. Okay, that's not the real problem. The difficulty is that I want to do String Theory and guess what...there's no one that wants to take undergraduates to do String research. Sure it's difficult, blah, blah, blah, you're supposed to know QFT and GR and everything else in between but, hey, I feel that I am pretty qualified. Before you know it Trogdor comes along and BURNINATES my chances (oh, professors can be so cruel).

(to download Trogdor's nifty theme song click here and go to "songs" and look for "Trogdor")

The irony of it all is that the websites of these so-called "institutions of higher learning" are no help either. I can't find anything. In fact, Google struggles and Google knows EVERYTHING!! (Well, not everything but you know what I mean...I am writing this to vent you know.) So I surf around and can't find contacts or researchers very easily. I am having to go to a specific school's website and search for particular professors. There is an Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) website (and the String pickings are slim there), but I cannot find a centralized Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) site. My life is so difficult!

Boy, people are going to see all my posts and think that all I do is complain. I don't...well I guess I do complain a lot but this is how I vent and I am banking on the off chance that some great Unification Physicist happens to Google into this blog and will find this poor, stifled and very promising undergraduate to help them solve the TOE problem. :)