Devestating Delays by Committee
I'm going to start with the good before I start ranting about the situation--
I've spoken with the Biology faculty on my committee. Both have recieved my thesis draft. Scheibe plans on getting me some comments by the end of the week.
Now, I'll complain.
I didn't hear squat from anyone until I went and spoke to them in person, the exception being Cwick who has... "vanished." (I'm sure he went on vacation.) Eddleman has the presence and personality where he could say the nicest sentence ever and it would come off as adversarial. His reasoning for refusing to read it was sound--not needing to mark all the same things twice--but it revealed what he really thought, that he didn't want to read it unless he absolutely had to. Thanks.
I alluded to this a moment ago, but these guys are all going on vacations. I put that as a plural because one of them is going on more than one vacation within a month. If you're not going to be around, you should be officially gone for the whole month, especially if you're only going to be around for one week in the middle of the month.
This is all from the standpoint of July 3. Unless I get at least one corrected draft read by the entire committee and agreed upon the week of July 17-21, I won't have the possibility of defending until AUGUST 7 at the earliest.
I'm going to give out blame now. It's overdue and it's only fair, since each member of the committee has done their part to fuck me over. In chronological order:
Me: If I'd started on the real work of the thesis earlier, the chances of my current delays and screwovers would be much less. Not gone, just less.
Scheibe: 7 times out of 10, he wasn't in his office when he told me he would be. Top it off with going to a conference for a week, and he's done his part.
Cwick: Hello? Hello? Dr. Cwick? Hello? Are you out there somewhere?
Eddleman: Practice what you preach there buddy.
Let me tell you what he preaches. All biology teaching assisstants are emphatically mandated to check their e-mail frequently (at least once daily), be present for their office hours, or at least leave a note as to where they'll be. These guys aren't doing that. I think there was something in there also about not being adversarial with students.
I could probably get into a lot of trouble for saying everything I've just said. Not because it violates anything, just that it might turn someone from that list against me. Still, I'm posting this because I want to record what's going on as things progress and because it needs to be said.
Everyone is being civil about my thesis. Everyone is doing their job with regards to my thesis. No one is actively trying to fuck me. If that were the case, that person would have made an enemy of me.
Finally, I do have to report that, after hearing today's developments regarding my thesis, I have committed fraud. I walked in spring graduation, which I now, almost officially, had no right to do. As it stands, I walked in spring, finished my work in the summer, and might, just might, graduate in fall. I'm glad I've got The Silent Covenant to work on.
I've spoken with the Biology faculty on my committee. Both have recieved my thesis draft. Scheibe plans on getting me some comments by the end of the week.
Now, I'll complain.
I didn't hear squat from anyone until I went and spoke to them in person, the exception being Cwick who has... "vanished." (I'm sure he went on vacation.) Eddleman has the presence and personality where he could say the nicest sentence ever and it would come off as adversarial. His reasoning for refusing to read it was sound--not needing to mark all the same things twice--but it revealed what he really thought, that he didn't want to read it unless he absolutely had to. Thanks.
I alluded to this a moment ago, but these guys are all going on vacations. I put that as a plural because one of them is going on more than one vacation within a month. If you're not going to be around, you should be officially gone for the whole month, especially if you're only going to be around for one week in the middle of the month.
This is all from the standpoint of July 3. Unless I get at least one corrected draft read by the entire committee and agreed upon the week of July 17-21, I won't have the possibility of defending until AUGUST 7 at the earliest.
I'm going to give out blame now. It's overdue and it's only fair, since each member of the committee has done their part to fuck me over. In chronological order:
Me: If I'd started on the real work of the thesis earlier, the chances of my current delays and screwovers would be much less. Not gone, just less.
Scheibe: 7 times out of 10, he wasn't in his office when he told me he would be. Top it off with going to a conference for a week, and he's done his part.
Cwick: Hello? Hello? Dr. Cwick? Hello? Are you out there somewhere?
Eddleman: Practice what you preach there buddy.
Let me tell you what he preaches. All biology teaching assisstants are emphatically mandated to check their e-mail frequently (at least once daily), be present for their office hours, or at least leave a note as to where they'll be. These guys aren't doing that. I think there was something in there also about not being adversarial with students.
I could probably get into a lot of trouble for saying everything I've just said. Not because it violates anything, just that it might turn someone from that list against me. Still, I'm posting this because I want to record what's going on as things progress and because it needs to be said.
Everyone is being civil about my thesis. Everyone is doing their job with regards to my thesis. No one is actively trying to fuck me. If that were the case, that person would have made an enemy of me.
Finally, I do have to report that, after hearing today's developments regarding my thesis, I have committed fraud. I walked in spring graduation, which I now, almost officially, had no right to do. As it stands, I walked in spring, finished my work in the summer, and might, just might, graduate in fall. I'm glad I've got The Silent Covenant to work on.
posted by LEN! at 12:52 AM
1 Comments:
Yeah, I'd say the work ethic of the people at the University as a whole goes to shit over the summer.
I turned in my Application for Candidacy Finals Week, they have, I know this because I talked to them the first week of June, and Dr. Amick said I'd get an e-mail when it was cleared. Since then? Nothing.
And I'm with you on Eddleman. I like the guy, but unless there are other people around as well, I stay very quiet around him because he makes me nervous quite frankly.
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