Posted by alexandra_k on February 5, 2019, at 0:19:27
In reply to Re: clash, posted by alexandra_k on January 31, 2019, at 0:26:36
i think the degree i am enrolled in is a fools errand because they simply will not allow students to get through in time.
they will say the changes can't be signed off on within 10 weeks because they are too substantive...
when they could be.
it is just that the supervisor prefers to have 10 weeks off, over that time of year.
so i'm forced to pay additional fees and drop back to part time status because my supervisor doesn't feel like working over the next little while.
and instead of being easy going when they don't want to work they dig their heels in and become obstructive and everything must grind to a halt.
chief.
that's what they call them there.
chief supervisor.
i asked about a quote to the place that does hardbinding and they won't track and trace deliver hardbound theses to where they are supposed to go. they will courier stuff for staff... but not for students. i offered to pay... but some things not even money can buy for students.
you have to collect it and deliver it in person.
that was what they were going on about before.
so they can call security and have you removed from teh premises if they see you coming to hand your work in on time....
i feel like the whole degree is a fools errand.
they were never going ot let me complete on time.
no matter how hard i worked.
the harder i worked only made them work harder to fail me. and now the whole university is positively off-side.
i don't think it is just me... that they are dragging their heels on, i mean. but i don't think there was any way to get them on side.
i wonder if students who relied on completing research degrees in minimum time for eligabilty for med were.... being sent on a fools errand when it came to that. they suggest it only because i don't think anybody would do graduate research in this country if it didn't look like it was a potential route to medicine.. but then they refuse to complete people in teh minimum time.
and then with the med applications they don't say 'your application was deemed ineligable'. instead, they say 'your application was declined' and then they launch into a tirade about how competitive it is and so on.
but they don't say how many of the applicants are actually *eligable* for med. how many they cull on grounds of ineligability, i mean. Maybe all of the ones they don't want that would make it on the basis of GPA/UMAT if they weren't rendered ineligable.
apparently students can ask now why their application was declined.
but that won't stop them deciding a whole bunch aren't because... I don't know... Becuase their external examiners took 4 months to examine their thesis thus they weren't able to complete in the minimum time.
or maybe because their supervisor wants to have a holiday over the break and doesn't feel like trying to get changes signed off on within 10 weeks. Instead, just spend about 10 weeks having a holiday and say the student needs to pay more fees and labour for 6 more months at least.
why not if you thought you could get away with it?
which, i think, is why nobody in their right mind would be a graduate student, here.
i didn't think they would do that / be like that.
have people become more awful over time -- or am i just realising how awful they are?
i think it is the later.
i really don't think that there is any way through for me.
and people seem to want it to be that way. they get a smug self satisfied thing. like they *knew* things really were this way. they *knew* it. that was why they didn't try, themselves. and so on.
i don't know.
i don't know what to say, right now.
i have asked for clarification around what 'minimum time' means on research degrees.
my supervisor doesn't understand a lot of my thesis. because it was written in response to courses that i've studied that she's not studied. and then it was given to a person who works on some particular area... within some particular paradigm... and he is not particularly sympathetic to the project, at all. so he questions parts that i really didn't want to have to make my whole thesis because other people have already written what i have to say about it. but he wants me to engage with the primary literature and make that case all over again... and i don't want to get stuck into trying to read whether inequality is increasing over time for a country with a particular measure... or whatever... to know that some people have more and more and more (e.g., rental properties) while others have less and less and less (e.g., as those rental property prices just keep on going up).
i don't really want to have an argument about that for half a year.
and then he (purposely?) totally misses the point several places... and f*ck*ng well on and on and on and then he gets snarky. and then reverts to things like 'poor argument!'
and i don't get to have an oral defence.
my supervisor is on the scholarships meeting hui committee whatever it is.
she's really proud about that.
i didn't get any scholarship at all. i said i'd love to visit and give a talk and meet everyone and hang out and have a beer... but the funds didn't come through for any of that.
i'm good at defending it in person.
even the Dean wanted to talk to me on teh phone before deciding they didn't want to do an oral defence. i see that, now. she wanted to see how... quick... i was. whether i would be able to handle myself. i can... therefore i don't get to.
yeah.
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