University level research at Big U...

For those who have been through and perhaps survived "Big U", these words most likely elict:

• boredom -
  some dude spent 3 years and $300k of your tax dollars to prove that mean people are unpopular, wild monkeys don't trim their nails, the universe is a big place, an author in 15th century Germany had insight into wax, etc. etc.
• fear -
  only the true 'genius' please apply for the important work listed above, namely those employed as Professors at Big U. According to these folks, all others are brainless morons, unless you happen to be one of the unlucky to serve as a grad student to said genius at Big U, in which case you are elevated to 'worm-slave'.
• both of the above

• Open research philosophy
  Got something good goin'? Write it down, record it, make a song out of it, whatever! We welcome all your experience as valuable, real-world, applied, this-means-something-to-me research.
• Take it a step further, only if you
  want to!
  Your documents, in whatever form, provide the data to your research. If you feeled compelled, BC encourages you to put this data together to make your own profound observation on the human condition and\or the natural world!
• College of Everything
  We provide you free courses on how to study everything, known as the Science of Überology. For your homework, we provide a wiki space for you to record pretty much anything, because the College of Everything includes all the world's activities, including those important to you that researchers at Big U dis' without so much as a second thought.