As I posted on a different version of this thread, it's grad school's "royal we" in action. Profs have ideas, grad students implement. It's not 100% but that

As I posted on a different version of this thread, it's grad school's "royal we" in action. Profs have ideas, grad students implement. It's not 100% but that was the way it tended to work in ancient times and this seems to suggest it's still the case. Which isn't unreasonable, as 2nd year grad students have almost infinite enthusiasm coupled to not always knowing what is and isn't possible. Interesting things can come from these kinds of people.