I am glad to complete CUTE lab in my last semester at UVM. For me, it is a brand-new study experience. Different than traditional normal courses, CURE provide me a true, deep and complete undergraduate research experience. From looking for a research direction to write a formal research paper, my scientific skills have been fully improved.
CURE helped me find what I am good at and what I am interested. Practice makes perfect, I met many barriers during this semester. However, I think those barriers helped me to learn deeper and think more. My final research topic for this lad is how underwater noise affect marine communities. However, my first potential topic was evaluating future deep-oil noise in Panama area. The first barrier I met was missing raw data. Then I try to read more scientific paper under professor’s instruction. I finally decided to do research on off-shore shipping noise related to deep-oil noise. Meeting and solving barriers is an important learning methods in CURE lab. During analysis process, I also learned how to use analysis software and most important thing is, I learned how to write a standard scientific paper.
I recommend all undergraduate students who is or will learn science catch a chance to join the CURE lab. It is not only a scientific research experience; it is a preparation for using what you learned in real situation and for be a future scientist.
CURE helped me find what I am good at and what I am interested. Practice makes perfect, I met many barriers during this semester. However, I think those barriers helped me to learn deeper and think more. My final research topic for this lad is how underwater noise affect marine communities. However, my first potential topic was evaluating future deep-oil noise in Panama area. The first barrier I met was missing raw data. Then I try to read more scientific paper under professor’s instruction. I finally decided to do research on off-shore shipping noise related to deep-oil noise. Meeting and solving barriers is an important learning methods in CURE lab. During analysis process, I also learned how to use analysis software and most important thing is, I learned how to write a standard scientific paper.
I recommend all undergraduate students who is or will learn science catch a chance to join the CURE lab. It is not only a scientific research experience; it is a preparation for using what you learned in real situation and for be a future scientist.