Undergraduate research feels like it is going nowhere. Any advice from someone experienced?
Undergraduate research feels like it is going nowhere.


That's normal.  If it were easy, it would have been done before, and it would not be research.


  he's not the best at communicating


That's not normal.


  he never tells me what we are actually working on


That's not normal.


  if there's any meetings I can go to to please invite me, but I never really get anything back. 


That's not normal.


  I don't know if he feels like I am incapable or doesn't want my name on his research paper. 


More likely he's disinterested.


  I am a first generation college student, so all of this is very new to me.


&lt;5% of people with college degrees have studied abstract algebra.  Being first generation isn't that relevant here.


  I haven't heard from him in like 4 months


The pandemic doesn't excuse zero communication for four months (assuming he's alive).

Conclusion:  You are not receiving adequate research mentoring.  Find new mentors.