Yeah, in grad school the theory grad students were the ones who had to TA a bunch to cover gaps in their funding. When you have a couple million tied up in lab

Yeah, in grad school the theory grad students were the ones who had to TA a bunch to cover gaps in their funding. When you have a couple million tied up in lab equipment it's easy to divert some to grad students to keep it running but us theory folk were switching projects every couple years just to keep the lights on as it were