Genuine question as I don’t understand how that’s possible. For some context, I’m in the 6th semester of my bachelor’s degree in the EU. I see people on here talking about doing research during undergrad and I just cannot understand how you can contribute something meaningful to cutting edge science at that point in your “career”. Like, I’m taking a master’s course in relativistic qft right now and I wouldn’t claim to understand even a fraction of the knowledge required to do any sort of original work in this area.
I’ve only ever known of one person at my uni actually doing research during his studies but he was already in his last semester transitioning to the master’s program and was also one of the smartest people I’ve ever met. Other than that I haven’t heard of anyone doing this sort of thing so I’m really curious how it’s possible that seemingly every third person posting in this subreddit is doing undergrad research.