jouri,I find your comment quite selfish and hurtful. This forum is for PhD students, as PhD students we support each other. I myself, have gotten a lot of help from this forum because other fellow students share their experiences. You can simply bypass certain topics, if you don't understand what people are going through SHUT UP!!!

emmaki, funny! my supervisor repeatedly told me that it's going to be tough for me in academia because not only I am a woman, I am black. I am just going to be a supertech.

pamplemouse, I understand what you are going through. I am a first year student, just finish my MPhil upgrade. My supervisor kept telling how I am not capable of doing a PhD and will not going to submit in three years. No matter what I do it's not good enough for him. I am just dragging myself each day to the next. On top of it, I don't think he will support my docoument, since he plans to tell the MPhil upgrade committee that I will not finish in three years. From the way he's been talking it would be a relief to him if I ought to quit. The lab is quite demanding, we do electrophysio. Although, I managed to patched a reasonnable amount of neurons in a short time he is not happy with it.