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Unlike all the other "kiasu" piranhas--I mean students taking final year projects, I'd only ever emailed one professor and express my interest in one of his projects. And by some fluke chance or bad timing, he happened to be in USA the week I emailed him (which was last week). So his secretary set up a meeting for all who emailed him this week. And today's the deadline for him to choose students for projects. 2 weeks, starting from tomorrow, students not allocated a project will hafta fight tooth and nail for the remaining projects. Me and nat were so convinced we would've fallen into the latter category after the meeting today, seeing as how the prof kept saying that "many people are vying for this project".
I bet we got it coz everyone else got sick of waiting for him and found another prof to latch onto long before he came back from US and A. =3
~~My email to the prof on why we want the project and why he should choose us (brace yourselves, it's gonna be a long one)~~
Hi Sir, we have just met earlier and since I did not receive any email regarding our details, I'll send them to you now. Hopefully the lateness of this reply will not deter you from considering us as candidates.
Firstly, some basics. I'm 3sa and my partner is nat. We are both hoping to specialize in Biomedical Electronics during our final year (seems like everyone wants to do biomed these days...) and we both feel that this project will be able to help us relate to the field we will be stepping into, even if the link to both fields might not be apparent right away.
Personally, I am fascinated by the idea of analyzing EEG signals and correlating them to different emotions. This project in particular could one day assist psychologists and psychiatrists to diagnose possible mental disorders in patients. Among all the other projects listed, this project was the first to engage my interest and I had even thought of various ways to design and implement the experiments. After the meeting earlier today however, I now know that my plans for executing the experiments was sadly inadequate and we will have to modify them if we are ever to be selected.
I am proud to say that I am no stranger to biomedical engineering and biosignals. I am a graduate of Temasek Polytechnic, with a Diploma in Biomedical Informatics and Engineering. Throughout my 3 years of study at TP, I have came in contact with different methods of acquiring different biosignals, processed my fair share of those data using MATLAB and other softwares and is familiar with electrodes and gels. =)
nat was a triple-science student. Having taken biology in JC had given her ample knowledge on how the human body works and she is especially keen on the subject of brain wave research. She is also well acquainted with Visual Basic C++ and is familiar with programming. I am certain she will be able to understand the program in no time and maybe even improve the algorithms provided for us in this project.
I know many people had expressed their desire to take up this project because it "interests" them and it sounds "interesting" but we do not want to be one of those people that wants this project just because it is "interesting" (even though, truth be told, it really is an interesting project to work on). We hope to be to assist and advance the area of EEG research and hopefully, our work in this field will be of some use to other researcher in the future.
Thank you for taking time out to read this lengthy email. I truly hope we will be able to hear good news from you soon.
Yours sincerely,
3sa
(*insert cell phone number here*, in case you have any further queries)
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I'm rather proud of this email--but only after it got us the project. Keke...
Aunt said my email was absolutely "flattering" (in the worse sense of the word), for him and for me, and that this is what a cover letter of all resumes should look like. *beams happily*
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