Yeah, during department teas you can hear mutters of "interesting" as ideas are exchanged and evaluated. But, in my last comment I was just trying to temper my

Yeah, during department teas you can hear mutters of "interesting" as ideas are exchanged and evaluated. But, in my last comment I was just trying to temper my previous comment's claim about how important definitions are. At some point you get so used to a definition that even if you don't know a particular formulation word for word, you could still write a textbook on the subject because you know how the theory is supposed to go.