<p>"Who cares about jumping through hoops in class when you can spend the night in the lab?"</p>
<p>Now that sounds more reminiscent of my experience thus far haha.</p>
<p>Though shnjb brings up an interesting, if not satiric, idea. Anyone know of an undergrad getting a first author on a C/N/S article? Seems ridiculous to me.</p>
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I don't know -- I think the perfect undergrad (who's going to become the perfect scientist, mind you) probably has a few B's on his record. Who cares about jumping through hoops in class when you can spend the night in the lab?
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<p>I agree. Doing quality research is more important than getting a squeaky clean 5.0.</p>
<p>Apparently among MSTP applicants, there are some of those with first author papers in C/N/S.</p>
<p>But obviously this would require not just being a perfect undergrad, but also being in a perfect setting.</p>