<p>On a different post, my question had something to do with what it takes to get into graduate school and several most insisted that my son should be doing his own research–one even suggested that he was not motivated enough to be doing his own research then he didn’t deserve to go on to graduate school–which is why I started this post. But now that I think about it, I can’t think of any of his engineering friends who have done “their own research”. They have all worked under a professor, which is exactly what he does for the USGA and he will be doing next summer in Germany.</p>