Yeah, it's... I feel shitty about where I am, sure, but also a lot of my setbacks really are shit that is really complex and poorly managed, and some of them are structural? (For example: a really big proportion of my Shit Dealing With Relationships really does stem from the fact that I am queer and so is my partner, and both of us have less support than might otherwise be expected from our respective families, and...)
And then on top of that, my boss is an inexperienced mentor (definition: has graduated I think... four or five students? had graduated exactly one when I joined the lab) who means well but is also definitely not great at his job, if you define a PhD advisor's job as providing a structure to get students out in a timely manner, and is working in a system that no one has worked in but himself since the 1970s, and I've been carrying the brunt of a lot of that...
well, it's perhaps not surprising it's going to take me eight years.
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Date: 2019-05-26 09:51 pm (UTC)And then on top of that, my boss is an inexperienced mentor (definition: has graduated I think... four or five students? had graduated exactly one when I joined the lab) who means well but is also definitely not great at his job, if you define a PhD advisor's job as providing a structure to get students out in a timely manner, and is working in a system that no one has worked in but himself since the 1970s, and I've been carrying the brunt of a lot of that...
well, it's perhaps not surprising it's going to take me eight years.