Hi Penpen,

Sorry to hear you also had a bad experience, but congrats on the job. Right now I don't feel like I want to continue in stem, especially not in my field. I was hoping if I applied for jobs it would motivate me, but the thought of being in a stem field for the rest of my life was extremely overwhelming.

Right now I need a conclusion, for the most part the rest of the thesis is good enough for a rough draft and I have to submit something for a format review later today, but since my PI has ignored me for the past 2 weeks, I'm not sure if he will get back to me after I submit this. So I have till the end of August to get the thesis signed off and I've already hit the minimum page limit, so I just need my PI to pull through.

I have the same problem during the day, I am not able to write. If you can get yourself to finish a complete draft, then you can focus on the fact that you at least got to put some stuff you thought was interesting down and maybe you can publish your other stuff as a paper or on a blog? I'm so set on being finished that its just so difficult to write because I'm so over it.

Recently switched from a PhD to a Masters after having lots of problems with my department and being neglected by my PI. It seems academia was not what I thought it was at all. It is mostly politics and dealing with competitive losers or pervs. Not all was bad, but mostly I got stuck with the worst lab mates in both labs i worked in and now im ready to leave forever, but its so hard to focus. I have one foot out the door and I am so over this, not to mention my advisor is way to "busy" to help me which is the least he can do after not helping me all these years I wasted. I'm having a hard time focusing all I can think about is how much I hated my grad school experience (not the friends I made, but the people ive worked with in labs, advisors, departments), STEM sucks.