My favorite class is PSYCH 4700: Independent Psychology Research! I work in the Social Perception and Intergroup (In)equality Lab (Krosch Lab) as a Research Assistant and get three credits every semester towards my major and graduation requirements. I will champion the Krosch Lab forever; it's the lab I wrote about wanting to join in my application to Cornell. To get to work in it now is an honor and a dream 16-year-old Leina would have died to find out came true. I get to work firsthand with a Cornell psychology professor and her graduate students, which has taught me a ton about my pathway toward graduate studies in psychology. We learn to collect quantitative and qualitative data, how to analyze and interpret it, how to pull previously published research to inform the creation of future studies, and at the end of the semester, each Research Assistant writes a 10–12 page research paper on a topic they want to explore, and it gets reviewed by our professor. I highly recommend research to every Cornell student I can!

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