Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Well sure. But it seems it would take little old me a *long* time to
> travel all the way to the frontiers of knowledge to do genuinely new stuff.

	Nah. Getting a PhD, in a sense, is supposed to be the beginning. You
learn enough to do something useful, and if you go into academia, spend
the rest of your life simultaneously getting to the frontiers and adding
stuff to it (they're codependencies, not strict dependencies).***

> OTOH, presumably that's what your supervisor is for? ;-)

	Good ones, yes,


*** Giving idealized case. Most people in academia spend more time doing
administrative work + grant writing than actually doing research. They
just guide grad students to do it for them.

-- 
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."-Asimov


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