Eminent advisors empower students by granting license to pursue passion projects

Evidence

I remember going to her with my first original research idea, one that was not yet fully formed or particularly profound, and not something that was in one of her main research areas. But her response was telling. She said something like, “Will, you don’t need my permission to work on something. If it’s what you care about, then that’s what you should be working on.” These were powerful words for a first-year graduate student to receive from one of the titans of our field, and I remember being filled with awe and gratitude for her response. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2216

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2216