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Back when I was just starting graduate school, I remember already feeling as if I understood the components needed for great scientific research: knowledge of a domain, the ability to implement a system or execute an experiment, and a creative insight about a phenomenon worth studying. While the domain knowledge and ability to execute seemed like pre-requisites for doing science at all, the capacity for creativity seemed to the element that separated a great scientist from the good. Since I felt like I was good at identifying creative research, I hoped that once I immersed myself in academia and started gaining domain knowledge and engineering skill, the creative ideas would come to me. Now, almost a year into my PhD program, I feel like I have learned a great deal, but I am left with the question: Where are all those good ideas?
Because the pages on the rest of my site tended to be fairly simple, I’ve decided to consolidate everything into Wordpress. While doing that little bit of housekeeping, I’ve also decided to choose a new blog theme. Unfortunately, I’ve lost the images from my old posts in the process. To quote Henry Drummond from Inherit the Wind, “Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it.”
