ScopeOfUndergrad

Prof: theory says that factors X,Y,Z affect consumer demand!

Me: cool!

Prof: but Y & Z are hard to measure, so we'll stick to discussing X

Me: wat

Gets ideas for cool stuff to study, thinks about how he can start to collect data to analyze such

Me: How do we [properly] collect data and build a data set?

Prof: [That's a bit outside the scope of the program]