Hiding from academic advisors is a necessary skill, made more difficult when your office is only forty feet away. You close your door, leave the lights off, and freeze because the sensor in your office doesn't think you're there and doesn't run the heat. Then you run into your advisor when you sneak out to use the bathroom.
I have a great advisor. She's helped with my thesis topic, suggested funding, and hired me for a great CV-boosting job (that also turned out to be a job from hell, but that's a different story). She is also a single mother of five year old twins and well published scientist. Talk about intimidation when the best excuse you can come up with for not having made any progress this week is that your computer was acting up.
She also didn't get upset when I put our 15 passenger university van in a ditch. Just told me to join the club.
I have a great advisor. She's helped with my thesis topic, suggested funding, and hired me for a great CV-boosting job (that also turned out to be a job from hell, but that's a different story). She is also a single mother of five year old twins and well published scientist. Talk about intimidation when the best excuse you can come up with for not having made any progress this week is that your computer was acting up.
She also didn't get upset when I put our 15 passenger university van in a ditch. Just told me to join the club.
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