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mcabbage
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I'm doing a USRA (Canadian equivalent of an NSF URA etc, fairly competitive) in the applied math department of my school, where i'll be working on mathematical/computational systems biology. I'll be learning lots of techniques for simulations, dynamical systems, etc and one of their models is based off of a model used in the study of liquid crystals. I want to keep my options open in case I decide to go into mathematical biotech/nanotech research which is why this USRA was attractive to me (in addition to the fact that this summer the physics USRAs were more competitive and all the interesting potential advisors are swamped with grad students)
I'm worried that grad schools won't value my USRA as much as if I did it in say, comp astrophysics or something. What does everyone think?
I'm worried that grad schools won't value my USRA as much as if I did it in say, comp astrophysics or something. What does everyone think?