Comments | solarwind: In need of a vacation, badly

solarwind

In need of a vacation, badly

Apr 07, 2010 18:24

I kinda wish I had posted about this yesterday when I was just pissed off and hadn't let it turn into being depressed. So instead of indignant rage, you're going to get depressed moping (which is, of course, just what you always wanted ( Read more... )

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zhukora1 April 8 2010, 02:11:29 UTC

Wow, epic entitled doucheness way off the scale on this one. This moron's a GRAD student? I have no idea how the hell he pulled that one off, but I hope it doesn't last. I'll raise my glass to him getting kicked to the curb with no degree to show for it. It's happened to better and more deserving students than him.

Sorry you have to put up with him. I'm glad you'll be graduating too (and partially for purely selfish reasons, but also because then you won't have to deal with this kind of idiot). I hope your advisor understands the situation better now, and won't cut him as much slack as he's been getting away with.

(Also, totally, totally OT, but why the heck doesn't LJ think "advisor" is spelled correctly? ARGH.)

solarwind April 8 2010, 02:33:51 UTC

I'm glad to see I'm not just blowing this out of proportion. I sometimes feel like I'm getting all self righteous and making more of things than I should, when we're all guilty of getting people to help us with stuff ( ... )

zhukora1 April 8 2010, 02:46:17 UTC

I'd have said he should have done his homework better and found a Masters program that didn't involve research (since I think there are plenty in Social Science at least that keep research to a minimum), but in your field does that even happen? I'm not sure how he could really learn it all without firsthand lab experience, which generally = some kind of research participation, whether it's your own or someone else's.

I suppose if I were feeling charitable I could imagine that he had somehow totally misinterpreted your curt tone as a replacement for the words you were saying to him and decided to tell on you as revenge for being "hostile" or something, but what kind of mature adult handles situations that way?

I think your advisor is going to have to learn how to put on their Srs Advisor pants real quick, since once you're gone and he doesn't have you to sponge off of anymore, things are going to go south for him pretty much immediately.

solarwind April 8 2010, 15:55:42 UTC

Actually, most of the Masters programs for science don't require much if any research if you aren't getting them as part of your path towards a PhD. I was rather surprised that the program I'm in now is SO research based, since that is unusual for this level. Sure, the other programs probably have you do a little, but the balk of the program is classes. They don't actually offer any graduate level classes other than research here, so it's a totally different can of worms. And it's not like he didn't know before he came, as he stopped by for an interview and I remember telling him as much. But clearly his trait of not actually listening when people talk didn't just develop over night ( ... )