Temper Tantrum Tuesday (y u so mad tho)

My thesis adviser is such a bitch. We get only 10 minutes per person every week with her, for 4 times in total, and today during my first session, she spent half of my 10 minutes trying to resend her evaluation for our proposals since nobody received them. To make things worse, she doesn’t allow us to send her our upgraded / modified version of the thesis after we process her assessment, not even a summary of “hey this is my modified research design and outline of my theoretical framework, can you check if this looks good” because she “doesn’t have time to read them”. She says we’re only allowed to email her short questions. Meanwhile, the other thesis advisers are literally sharing thousands of papers in google drive with their students, making them upload a document of progress per week to be judged, and even Skyping with students who have additional questions.

Meanwhile she’s not even a teacher in our major, and has a lot of conflicting theoretical and methodological background to what we’ve been taught, and she hasn’t finished her PhD in ten years because she had a baby. But she’s soooo opinionated about how you should do research, and so harsh on all our proposals (forgetting a “to” in a 5000 words proposal = incomprehensible, insufficient English and shouldn’t even be graded but she’s so nice to grade it anyway), doesn’t like any theories that she’s not familiar with (even though we’ve been studying those theorie for years in our major!) She gave me a D- for my proposal which I put a lot of effort in, and mind you, I usually get 9+ for all of my research papers, so I know I don’t usually suck this much. I’m really worried and discouraged at the same time, which really sucks! I would have preferred someone strict but can teach and guide a lot, or someone who’s not serious about their teaching job but doesn’t have such strange criteria of everything.

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