Closing the generation gap

If the feeling of underappreciation was a living being, it would be a pigeon on a bike that hits you in the face in the middle of your joyful walk around the campus. As a young scholar, you start your journey with a heart full of hopes, your mind full of imaginary awards for your imaginary discoveries, and your pockets full of – well, never mind. You join a well-known laboratory, with the hope that this is going to give you the experience, the knowledge and the skill set you need to make those discoveries. Then one day, you feel confident enough to propose a new solution or a new idea – only to be pushed into the pit of ‘the way things have always been done’.