How To Email Potential Research Profs

If you are trying to get a research job, start early. (but not too early) Profs and scientists are writing NSERC scholarships until about November. Around mid November start researching potential profs. Realistically, this will be your summer job for 4 months so make sure you will enjoy what you will are doing. If the work a prof is doing interests you, then email him or her. The email is the most important part. Ask him or her when he or she will be taking summer students. Explain your interest, what you are studying and when you can meet with him or her to discuss possibilities further. If he or she replies with an opening, great. During the meeting is when you want to sell yourself, possibly give him or her your transcript and CV. If he or she says that there are no opening then ask when he or she will have any opening or if he or she knowns any other openings