> This isn't going to hold for most undergraduates, since you're not going to interact with professors enough unless you're participating in undergraduate resea

> This isn't going to hold for most undergraduates, since you're not going to interact with professors enough unless you're participating in undergraduate research. In my experience professors at top tier research universities encourage and enable this, as one of the most fulfilling parts of their job is finding and grooming future research collaborators. Students are also incentivized since getting jobs or especially into grad school requires strong references from their professors. The extent to which it happens depends primarily on the student’s initiative though. > And getting sufficient attention to get into those programs is probably going to be harder in an online-only environment. That’s certainly one of the main problems that needs to be solved by online education, but I believe it’s one of the things everyone will adapt to out of necessity. Professors don’t want to stop grooming promising students for research careers just b/c of an outbreak, so they are finding new ways of doing that online. And we know from some fields like software engineering that remote collaborations are possible, so we’re starting from that point already.