I am currently working on my PhD Biomedical Engineering (3 years in), and I have mixed feelings on this. Certainly most PhD dissertations are a joke, but durin

I am currently working on my PhD Biomedical Engineering (3 years in), and I have mixed feelings on this. Certainly most PhD dissertations are a joke, but during the first few years of a PhD you are acting as the arms and legs of your professor, who, if they are any good, is capable of pushing forward human knowledge using you as an "instrument".