Hey,
I'm an undergrad looking at my options for summer research. I've spent the last several summers working in neuroscience labs, and I have a few offers to do neuroscience work this summer, as well. However...
While I was searching for a lab to host me, I started talking with this PI who does work completely unrelated to neuroscience, but he wants me to come to his lab over the summer and help him finish a paper, and he told me explicitly that I would be a coauthor.
Uh... should I jump at this opportunity? The work that this latter PI does is quite interesting, just not AS interesting to me as the neuroscience lab. I guess what I'm asking is, how golden are papers?
Thanks.
I'm an undergrad looking at my options for summer research. I've spent the last several summers working in neuroscience labs, and I have a few offers to do neuroscience work this summer, as well. However...
While I was searching for a lab to host me, I started talking with this PI who does work completely unrelated to neuroscience, but he wants me to come to his lab over the summer and help him finish a paper, and he told me explicitly that I would be a coauthor.
Uh... should I jump at this opportunity? The work that this latter PI does is quite interesting, just not AS interesting to me as the neuroscience lab. I guess what I'm asking is, how golden are papers?
Thanks.