[davidthefat]

You know what, I realize something... Stuff like this is going to happen all my life. My adviser and I may collide in grad school, my professors and I might collide during research, and eventually, I'll be on the receiving end when I am a professor and the student and I will have different schools of thought. I need to learn how to be more diplomatic while not just agreeing with everyone.

I just was an aggressive, young, somewhat reckless risk taker. My mentor is an experienced, conservative engineer. He worked for NASA as a systems engineer, of course he would be conservative; his projects would have cost him years and millions of dollars if they failed. That mentality transferred over to Robotics. I guess mindsets shift as you age. He would rather have us fail at competing than fail at building anything.