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I bet you work in an inexpensive paper/theory field (math, theoretical physics, CS), and your parent poster works in an expensive wet lab field (bio, chem, eng)
by judk 12y ago
I bet you work in an inexpensive paper/theory field (math, theoretical physics, CS), and your parent poster works in an expensive wet lab field (bio, chem, eng).
The cost/benefit tradeoffs are atrkly different.
- michael_nielsen 12y agoYou're right about my background. Still, I know many experimental PhD students who enjoyed great freedom in deciding what to work on. It's not always possible in the most expensive experiments -- a student probably can't easily repurpose the LHC for their own ends. But outside those huge experiments there's often a lot of flexibility, provided (a big caveat!) the PI is on board, and the student has ideas of their own.