Friday, August 11, 2006

Quitting

I'm seriously thinking about quitting school. My advisor is driving me crazy and since my chances of actually finding an academic job after I get my Ph.D are less than 1 in 5, why am I doing this to myself. She hates the second draft too. No, I'm not sure why. Apparently because I do know the answers to the questions I'm raising in my proposal. Yeah, those would be the questions I want to answer in my dissertation but apparently I'm already supposed to know the entire history of what I'm doing my research on. No, I don't know how that is possible or why a dissertation would even be necessary if we already knew it, but evidently, that's what I'm expected to know. She doesn't think I can get a good enough proposal before the end of the semester. Grant proposals are due in October and you have to be dissertation status to apply for them. That means, I couldn't apply for grants for next year. I'm not willing to wait two years to do my research trip. I'm married and 32 and I have other things I need to do in life besides waiting on this bitch to decide what the hell she wants. I'm frustrated beyond words and I can't stop crying. I just don't know what to do. I just don't think I can do this anymore.

3 comments:

Bart's Camille said...

emailing you....

Anonymous said...

Hang in there girl. I believe in you so much. Students need to have professors like you and you would be such an assest to the intellectual community. I just know it. But I also want you to be happy. I will call you again.

Anonymous said...

wait, 1 in 5? auuugh! i am glad you are holding on now, since if you can't do it, there's no WAY i can... and of course this is all about me. : ) i love you, glad things are going better.