How to get first authorships?

COLLEGE_2
Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:47:52 +0000

Well actually last summer I worked with a PhD student who was in the middle of his dissertation. Based on what he was doing with his thesis, I came up with my own, smaller project. So basically I created the idea/designed the experiment and worked with him to fine-tune it and everything. Then I ran the study myself (and went to him every step of the way to make sure I was going about everything correctly). I mean, it was an ecological project… not nearly as complicated as a biology project, but I guess it IS possible to do an independent project, though judging from your post, not very common.