"Yes, professors work hard, but let’s not kid ourselves that they’re involved with the nitty-gritty research work. You just sound like someone who’s bitter at y

"Yes, professors work hard, but let’s not kid ourselves that they’re involved with the nitty-gritty research work. You just sound like someone who’s bitter at young people." This week I've: - Worked on a research grant that doesn't have any students on it, so who else is doing the "nitty gritty research work"? - Gone through a student's research code line-by-line to try to hunt down a particularly pernicious bug. - Done a ton of data wrangling for another project to minimize the number of hands currently using a restricted-access server. If the parent poster is painting with an overly broad brush, so are you.