My first blog

I have just created my blog space and am not sure what to scribble here. So the question now is why did I create this if I don't have anything to put down. Its because everyone around me seems to have a blog spot and I would seem to be lagging behind in exploiting the technological advances of the mankind if I don't have one. Anyway since I have decided to post my first blog, let me put down what I do or what I feign to be doing. I am a PhD student which implies that I think about something no one else has though about, discover something no one has ever discovered, and thus further the knowledge of the mankind by a little more. But what really happens is that I cook up some crazy ideas, publish lots of papers and look to get a good position somewhere in the world. After that............. wait!!!!!!!!! I sometimes wonder if this is what I wanted to do when I decided to take up research as a career. I am probably stuck up in some old world where scientist actually practiced science not to keep the funding agencies happy or to publish but for the "Pleasure of finding things out" (in Feynman's words). But the world has moved and changed. As one of my seniors advised me, in today's scientific community you either publish or perish.