to be clearer on my current academic issues . . . i've been trying to bend over backwards not to come across as pissy to these folks in the dept . . .
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and i've made it known to the dept. head that I understand how the professors can't and perhaps shouldn't be expected to be "at the students' beck and call" during the summer.
it's just very frustrating to me because this one professor has known since around April that I wanted to work on this thesis stuff and that I wanted her as my advisor on it. we talked about it during the Spring term. It's also very frustrating because I've done all that I could to contact her "at her convenience" to meet and just go over things for this. it could have been as simple as meeting up somewhere (it doesn't have to be on-campus, and in fact, she had once made a comment to me about meeting off-campus at some point during the semester) for an hour in June, and then a follow-up as necessary in July so that I would know that I'm on the right track with my work.
i'm doing everything i can to let these people know that I'm trying to do everything I can to meet my end of responsibilities without trying to lay blame or anything or say in some way that "they're failing in their responsibilities" ...
i guess what frustrates me the most is that i've done everything that I know to do to meet my end of responsibilities, to meet deadlines, etc. and do generally what I'm supposed to do as the student. and to suddenly find out that my "deadline" is 2 days away and i feel helpless to be able to do anything about it is maybe what frustrates me the most. I don't want to come across as a bitchy whiny person complaining about everything. it just bothers me that i seem to be spinning my wheels here and am not getting anywhere with it.
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