Hi all,

dont know if anyone can remember my thread about being bullid out of my PhD and my decision to take am MPhil instead. Anyway I dont think Ill even get this :( I have basically lost all will to do the thesis because I submitted it for checking when I left in September. The week before my submission date my tutor got back to me and said it wouldnt pass because of the format and my results (even though he told me i had plenty before I left). I got a little angry about the fact taht I emailed him every day to ask if he had my thesis back and he basically ignored me. He said an extention wouldnt be a problem but I wanted this done and dusted for dec 1st (my original submission date). I dont trust him to check it, as he asked someone else to check it who told me it was nearly there so she must have lied to me.

sorry for the garbled rant but I have done everything I can. I have asked the uni for help and my personal tutor who basically said nothing can be done without him checkng my work. I dont know wether to give up now or carry on and still not get anything.

G

Your situation is exactly the same as mine... Its nice to know Im not alone :) However when my new supervisor started she became a bully and thats what forced me to quit. I suffered from clinical depression before starting my PhD and it impacted the first year and a half ish. After that I had had enough so I have decided to get out, take the MPhil and get myself back together again. I wish you all the luck in the world :)

Thanks everyone for the great replies. I will start writing down thing she has done. I have mentioned this before to my graduate tutor who has been great but nothing has gotten done about her. Another thing is she isnt even qualified to be teaching me... she hasnt yet submitted her PhD thesis and my PI is never in the country. When she was correcting my work she would put very unhelfpful comments like 'think before you write!!!!' etc instead of teaching me how to write it better. I do not expect anyone to do the work for me but sometimes it is nice to have a few pointers. Also I asked my PI loads of times to check my upgrade peice which he didnt then it came to about 3 months before submission and he said my writing wasnt good enough after she had told me it was fine. Then it came to about a week before the submission date (after 3 months of being in tears every night) and the PI said I didnt have enough results for my MPhil. I didnt have a supervisor for 8 months and then they wondered why I didnt have any results!!!

arg it makes me so mad Im going to complian formally about both the PI and supervisor. I dont want anyone else to go through this...

Do you feel completely exhausted by it all? Its good to know Im not alone but bad that we are both in this horrible situation. I am considering never going back to science and changing to Medicine.

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Hi all,

I dont knwo where to put this as I am new here :)

Ok so my story is that I started a PhD and now I feel as though I have been bullied out of it by my supervisor. She lied to my PI about my work saying I had done no lab work for 3 months when I had been working on something for her. She corrected my writing in a way that was unnacceptable and when my PI read it he said it was rubbish. She gives me random verbal beatings whenever she is in a bad mood so now I feel as though I am walking on egg shells. I dont trust her to give me a good reference. I have decided to settle on my MPhil and walk away from here before everything is lost. I have about a week and a half until I leave and she is stil piling the pressure on, moaning at me to do something that isnt even part of my project! When she arrived she was loverly but from about the 3rd month she started being overly aggressive and rather territorial. The good parts of my project were taken away and given to her but yet she still expected me to do the hard parts for her.

Sorry for the big jumbled rant but has anyone else ever felt this way? Do I have a cat in hells chance of ever getting another PhD? I dont want to put all this on my CV because it looks like I cant get along with others but I get along great with everyone else here.

Gemma