<p>[PHD</a> Comics: Intellectual Freedom](<a href=“PHD Comics: So productive”>PHD Comics: Intellectual Freedom)</p>
<p>Very true. I was telling one of my grad student friends, whose parents are both tenured profs, about how my research interests have been almost wholly dictated by my advisor and I just got lucky that our interests are very close. She said that her parents told her that we MIGHT get to study what we want in a post-doc (a stage that they left out in the comic), but that’s the earliest we should expect any real choice in the matter, lol.</p>