HOW DO STUDENTS FIND FACULTY ADVISORS FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE HONORS PROJECTS?
• Discuss with the honors director(s) what your interests are and he will point you to courses to take/people to talk to/ to further those interests. Then go talk with the suggested person. • While taking a course that you like, approach the teacher toward the end of it to ask about doing a project. • Just walk in to a professors office and talk. The worst they can do is say “GET OUT” 🙂 • WHEN IS A GOOD TIME TO FIND AN ADVISOR FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE HONORS PROJECTS? Sophomore year is a good time to look around. You want to have at least a year to do your project, and if you start as a sophomore then you can prepare yourself with courses and reading as well. If you are a more advanced Freshman, then starting even then would be okay. (E.g., one of our Freshman had been programming in C++ for 5 years.) • CAN WORK DONE IN INDUSTRY OR IN ANOTHER DEPARTMENT COUNT AS A COMPUTER SCIENCE HONORS PROJECT? In all unusual cases we are pretty flexible except that we insist on evidence of intellect
