Turning into my Advisor...
I'm not sure how many times over the years I've come out of a meeting with my advisor or a lab meeting thinking, "Man, he has some wild theories about stuff."
After some thinking in about the general topic that I work on, experiments that I did and work that I've read in the literature I came up with a wild theory of my own. If my hypothesis were true (and I really hope that some of the junior grad students working on this topic in my lab will do some of the experiments that I have in mind to test this idea) it would be a semi-major paradigm shift in Enterococcus biofilms. But before you all get your hopes up I need to remind you that at the moment it is still just a wild idea.
BUT
Where this gets a little funny is that this morning I shared my crazy idea with my mentor just to see what he thought...and so that hopefully someone will pursue those experiments once I leave. After I was finished he said, "I've been thinking about a scenario a lot like that."
So apparently I've become a lot like my advisor...right down to independently coming up with the same crazy theories about stuff. I guess it really is time to graduate!


