*bangs head*

[tsaiko]

I'm more than a little annoyed at my Committee Chair right now. He's gone in and given me tons and tons of changes on my thesis. The problem? A good deal of these changes are in the first sections of my thesis. In other words, the part that made up my proposal. Which is the part that he'd already looked at and approved once. I'm a little miffed that this was fine and dandy the first time and now, when I thought that part was done, I'm having to go back through and redo large sections of it.

I also forgot to cite something. He caught it, and I am 100% glad he caught it. The note I had for myself saying "Citation?" got dropped at some point and none of us noticed it the first time around. It was a stupid error on my part. What I am not happy about is the not-so-subtle way he implied that I did it deliberately and saying "BTW, you'll have to run this through Turnitin.com and send the report to your committee." I'm already upset that this is taking like 2x as long as I wanted it to and now this? Yeah, not thrilled. Though now I'm paranoid as hell that something else like this happened and am triple checking everything. Which is probably what he wanted anyway.

I'm also going to have to do more analysis, which I'm not happy about at all. He wants it done by the end of the week. I'm not sure I can have it done by the end of the week. I'm going to try.

This pretty much gets rid of any chance of having it done by July. And because of the insane rules of my University, it means I will not be awarded my degree until September. Why? Because in order to get your degree in a month (say August), you have to have everything turned into the University by August 10th. Otherwise, they will award your degree the next month (September) assuming you have everything turned in by September 10th.

Why does like suck so hard sometimes?

Comments

[mechante-fille.livejournal.com]

*pets* Committee Chair... is that a professor or another student? Sounds like an ass, anyway. Sounds like he wasn't doing his job first time through, or that he is being even more of an ass, now.

Good luck! *snugs*

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

It's a professor. In fact, it's my adviser. Usually he's really nice and really good about this thing. I don't know what happened this time.

I seriously wonder why he even bothered reading the proposal the first time if he wasn't going to point out these problems when it was easier for me to fix them. And it's not like some of these are tiny flaws either. I just can't believe he sprung this on me at this late in the stage. It makes me feel like I totally failed in understanding what to do.

[rappleart3.livejournal.com]

What an ass. I'd be so pissed if someone did that to me (in fact I think I have had it done to me before). It really really sucks and I feel for you. And the whole thing with Turnitin? That's bull. He should know you well enough to know that you would never plagiarize, that this was completely accidental.

I wish you the best of luck getting it done and who knows, maybe by the time you're done I'll be finished one of my many ongoing stories... >.

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

I don't know if going through Turnitin.com is a standard thing for this or what. He says that it is, but I wish he'd told me that previously instead of saying "This sounds like your quoting something, but I see no citation. YOU WILL HAVE TO SEND THIS TO TURNITIN.COM YOU KNOW."

What also pisses me off is that this was in the section I'd already turned in to him and my other committee members as the proposal. I really wish one of them had caught it then instead of my chair pulling this crap. Way to make me feel like a liar and a cheat.

[rappleart3.livejournal.com]

Well, you know that you are no liar or cheat, and everyone else here knows that, so you can take some comfort from that :)

[attilatehbun.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Ugh ugh ugh. What a dick. You have my sympathies and my support and if internet-punching actually did any good, consider your Committee Chair internet-thwapped. That shit is not on.

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

One of my fellow grad students put thing in perspective though. My chair probably threw a fit because this was the third time he'd looked at this paper and only now noticed it. It was embarrassing for me having forgotten to cite properly, but it was probably more embarrassing for him that he didn't notice right away. Which helped me feel better.

Although giving him a good internet punch in the face would improve my mood as well. XD

[amatsubu.livejournal.com]

I have never had luck with advisers...so sorry he did that on the first part of your thesis!!!