Depends on the faculty, but in most cases you are still indentured unless fully sponsored with a grant or bursary. Most people project their own esoteric inter

Depends on the faculty, but in most cases you are still indentured unless fully sponsored with a grant or bursary. Most people project their own esoteric interests on what they think the world should care about, but almost all are wrong most of the time. Research institutions are like hermit-crab populations, and "science advances one funeral at a time" as some observed... One finds competitive sociopaths tend to do very well in such political climates. Ones instincts likely tell you my opinions must be ill informed, but that was also predictable given the decades of training. ;-)