I got a new doctoral student to supervise and she is like, sooo young, fresh from grad studies. Yesterday I got a visit from an ex-student (35 yo) and his department head (65 yo) who she described as: “An old guy and a guy with gray hair were looking for you” It could be insulting, as I’m older than the “old guy”, but what she was actually saying: “A person whose age I could still gauge and a person with an age out of my scale were looking for you”