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Its not very common for grad students in psychology to be single author on a paper - I would take your 2 papers where you will be first author with an unhelping second author and try to get them out as fast as possible.
PhD Student Rant #2 Field Notes 2006
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Lying angrily there, I threw a stone at the nearest, which got up and wavered about behind my head: finally it straddled its back legs and staled in wide, bitter jets; and I was so far gone with the heat and weakness and pain that I just lay there and cried about it unhelping.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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And after all the cork-tipped cigarettes I have given you, and all the ninety-three I have given your Auntie Lucinda -- why look at the empty message bottles she and you have thrown out into the helpless and unhelping bayou -- a perfect fleet of them, bobbing around.
The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive Emerson Hough 1890
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The most unfriendly, unhelping people I’ve ran into, and that includes New Yorkers.
In France « Whatever 2007
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