Research paper authorship as an undergraduate: how does it happen?

LauraN
Sun, 02 Aug 2009 10:57:48 +0000

I ended up as third author on a paper based on the work I did on my MISTI internship, believe it or not. This came as a total surprise to me six months later when I got an email from my supervisor about how the paper was being published, when I had no interest in getting published at all. Not that it’s not cool, obviously, just that I’m not interested in grad school, or research, or things which generally require being published, so I wasn’t aiming for it or anything. It came as just a complete surprise side effect of my internship. =)