On: Ask YC: How to survive grad school?

[mechanical_fish]

You know, I've worked in labs which employed actual minions and actual doomsday devices (well, maybe not, but they were more than deadly enough to destroy all of us minions if something went wrong) ... and the excitement wears off. Eventually you stop being awed by the doomsday device and start being annoyed that its repair bills are so high and that you have to keep filling it with liquid nitrogen in the middle of the night.

Whereas putting something together in your garage from flea-market parts has a certain pleasure all its own.

[davi → mechanical_fish]

Yep, the small scale, low budget, homebrew work is more aligned with what I thought you meant by 'personal crackpottery'.

[mixmax → mechanical_fish]

Apparently the grass is always greener on the other side.