Marbeaux

Thanks for your advice. I just had another meeting with him and explained what we expect. Hopefully, he will listen this time. I spoke to my supervisor about this, too and she is with me on this one. I know that supervising students is part of being in academia but sometimes it just sucks...

Hi there, I am new here and even though it seems like almost everyone is still waiting to be admitted for PhD programmes, I'd still like to ask you for your input on this one: I am a second year econ PhD student, and part of my job description is to supervise master's students writing their thesis (ultimately, I take part in their grading, too). I am really fed up with that right now because I supervise this one guy who is looking for a topic just now. Every advice I give him, he doesn't listen and does totally unrelated stuff instead. A day before our meetings, he usually either cancels or send me pages and pages of irrelevant information he expects me to read before our meeting. I am so annoyed. And I have told him, but he doesn't seem to understand. All this takes time away from my own research time, so I am really fed up. :mad: Any of you experience something similar?