> Choose your advisor, not your area of focus. Absolutely this. Worked on my master's dissertation with my initial supervisor. He went off to try and find fun

> Choose your advisor, not your area of focus. Absolutely this. Worked on my master's dissertation with my initial supervisor. He went off to try and find funding for a year or two to get me to come back for PhD. Turned up, he passed me an ACM magazine article and asked me to have a look and see if anything stuck. Got hooked. He knows I like weird and trippy stuff ;) I'm in a bit of rubbish situation as he left his position here for greener pastures. Totally fair decision on his part from what I've gathered of the back story Now supervised by someone else and it's just not the same. Have to go over old ground quite often. So yeah, choose your supervisor wisely. If they "get you" then they'll get what you're interested in. Then they'll be able to work with you find an interesting area to study.