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I talked to him and he offered to change the project, but whatever happens it is his character to behave like this and this cannot be changed.As long as he works on the super-project and makes publications and travels to conferences everything is ok for him.
Try talking to your advisor or postgraduate tutor.
I am in the same situation, even though im in the 1st year of my PhD. It is really frustrating having a supervisor who cares only how to cover his back. There is this super-project that he is working on with another PhD student and me working on "something" that he does not want to put any effort at all! He works in the same office with this PhD student and whenever i have a meeting with him we are all 3 together...knowing that they make so much progress together makes me feel totally worthless...
I want to change university and PhD but i don't know how im gona justify this to others and i don't know how they gona take it...
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Don't laugh but I was convinced at PhD level you must 'know it all'. Everywhere I looked, I got the impression that other students knew exactly what they were doing and I felt like a 'fraud'.
I have the same impression...the worst is having my supervisor comparing me with others and saying how weak i am....but i know i try hard and at least i would expect some appreciation for my efforts but...NO!
I have an advisor (like 2nd supervisor) but he is a professor who is even more busy than my Dr supervisor and besides he knows as much as i know about my subject.
The main problem is that many new supervisors don't know how to supervise or even how to teach. They just give you a subject they tell you few thinks and they let you do the rest...and if you ask a question you get the same answer again and again!
Hi,
I talked to my supervisor and he admitted that the last 8 months were indeed unproductive...He took part of responsibility but overall he said it was my fault! But i know i was trying but the directions i was given were wrong and it is his fault.
Most of the time he was busy with a project that is more significant to him..project that will allow him to go to conferences (i.e Hawaii!!)
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