u/literallybateman

I’m in the middle of week 3 of my REU. My mentor has gone away for two weeks or so, and I finished the only task he’d assigned me within a few hours of him leaving. I don’t have a co-mentor and no one in my lab works on the project we’re working on.

I’m still pretty early in my REU, so I don’t think I’m nearly independent enough to figure out the next steps without guidance. I do have some ideas, but I’m afraid I’ll just be wasting my time if I work on them, instead of making any real progress. How can I keep things moving these next 2 weeks?

I’ll be staying on campus for SURF, and I was wondering what the odds of getting a single are. I have a friend coming over, and it would really suck for both them and my roommates if I’m sentenced to a triple or something. I also don’t want to pay 4k for anything but a single or a suite.