Katie Wolf - DREU Experience
University of Minnesota -- Oregon State University
- Distributed Research Experience for Undergraduates - Summer 2009 -

Welcome!

I am spending the summer at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon doing research under Xiaoli Fern. Here you will find updates about my research and how I spent my summer.

We drove 1800 Miles from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Corvallis Oregon in two days.

Check out my Weekly Log to view weekly updates on my Summer in Oregon.

Why DREU?

I am at that point in my academic career where I should make a decision on what I want to do after college. Is graduate school the right path for me, or should I find a job? Last summer I had a great experience doing an internship in the IT department at the headquarters of a global manufacturing company on their Business Intelligence team. I also had the benefit of being able to work there part time over the school year. With that experience, I have an idea about what working in a corporate environment is like, so to get a better of idea what grad school is like I applied to DREU. I have no experience doing research, and before I start planning my future, I think it would be really valuable to get an idea of what it is like. This site is dedicated to my DREU experience.