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October 09, 2003

So, I'm slightly annoyed, even

So, I'm slightly annoyed, even though I should probably not be. So, the jist goes that I've been preparing for a talk that I'm giving at a retreat that I'm going to (it's short, so not a big deal, but I think it's still important to have the presentation down, you kno?). So, this is the first talk I've ever given, so you can imagine that I'm a little nervous about since a) it's among a lot of industry people and b) it's the first real technical talk I've ever given about my research. It's bad enough that my advisor is out of town for three weeks. But it doesn't help that although she promised to try to respond to emails, her last email included a "sorry, I can't respond to your email b/c I have bad internet connection here", which btw, I think is full of shit. So then, there is another advisor that "did work" (and there are multiple reasons why I have that in quotes) on this project, so if my advisor is out of town, she should be the one that is sort of guiding me or what not. Well, it's lovely that after my first talk, and right before my second talk she finally decides to come over and ask me how my slides are going, and that she'll come to my second practice talk. When my second practice talks rolls around, she doesn't show up. And she emails me three hours after my practice talk to tell me tha she couldn't make it. Nice. So then, she decides to show up today and tell me to re-give my practice talk to her if I wanted to. I'm sorry, but the slides were due YESTERDAY, and I gave my practice talk YESTERDAY, and I'm not really supposed to be changing my slides after I have submitted it. So excuse me if I'm not so thrilled to be giving another one when I thought maybe you would show up since you damn insisted on having your name on my project. But yeah, I'm a little annoyed at my advisor, a little annoyed at the other advisor. Grr. My analogy goes as such: feel sort of like a baby being dropped into the ocean w/o any support from my parents, and the only support I get is from FISH. You kno, like they really want to help, and hell, they do, but honestly speaking, sort of feel like they can't really help me as much as say, someone of the same species can. Dunno if that makes sense, but basically I do stuff not related to the stuff that people were helping me with do. And so, presentation wise, the way it looks and such is great, but technically speaking, I needed my advisor for the go ahead. Guess she was too busy to deal with it. Whatever.

Posted by szujin at October 9, 2003 01:59 PM

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