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Assistantship Advantages | Research Assistantship Advantages
- They give you research
experience: In a research assistantship, your job is to design
experiments, conduct experiments, analyze data and write up the results.
These are all essential skills for new scientists. Having these skills
will help you when you complete your Master's Thesis and Doctoral Dissertation.
- Lots of scholarly
activities for your Academic Vita: Working as a research assistant
means contributing to the successful completion of conference talks
and posters, publications and grants. When you contribute to these types
of projects, you may get authorship and / or recognition. Scholarly
activities look great on an Academic Vita. They can help you get a job
in academia in the future.
- May get to know
your major professor better and this can enhance your letter of recommendation:
A research assistant usually works closely with their professor, post
docs and upper level graduate students. When you work closely with these
people, you can get to know them better. Knowing these people can help
you get better letters of recommendation - letters that really demonstrate
that you have worked closely with other academics. Great letters of
recommendation can get you far.
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