Wish I were a collider physicist...........

Tevatron at Fermilab although gonna be shut down soon, producing lots of excitement among the high energy physics community. Although LHC has lot claimed any new physics so far, recent Tevatron data are showing deviations from the Standard Model predictions at 2.5-3 sigma confidence level. Although these can not be taken as a discovery of new physics and we need to wait till more data come out and analyzed, they give physicists lots of opportunities to publish papers with high citations. Initially it was about like sign dimuon charge asymmetry, then it was about top quark forward backward asymmetry and now its about dijet excess of events in the range 120-160 GeV all of which do not agree with the Standard Model predictions. It would be really sad to see Tevatron dying amidst such excitements. But anyway, LHC will take this charge from Tevatron very soon and will continue this excitement. For PhD students like me, I think it would be the smartest step to switch to collider physics as long as these colliders are alive and publish as many papers as possible ;)