Research Funding
The more I think about it, the more confused I am. In the recent past, QoH has in clear terms transferred the responsibility of finding the funding for projects on to us grad students. His exact words were, “I will try to find funding for you guys, if not, I am sorry.” Is this fair? Isnt it the advisor’s job to find funding for his research and find a way to pay for his grad students? I understand the student has to help the advisor in the funding search as much as possible, and should play an active role in writing proposals and such. However, I feel shifting the onus on the students is not something a good advisor should do.
I feel used now. As long as QoH needed me to write my papers and book chapters to help him get his tenure, he went all out to see to it that I was funded. Now that he has his tenure, he feels that he can do whatever he wants. I almost feel that he doesnt care about his research anymore. He has gone into a state of mind, where it is ok to lose a grad student coz of funding issues, rather than strain himself about it. This is fucked up. I am tempted to take it to the department advisor and lodge an official complaint, but I am afraid of the repercussion. If a grad student has to live in the fear of losing his funding and being kicked out of school, then how on earth is one supposed to do any decent work?
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By Falconmyst, November 8, 2005 @ 1:33 am
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Question: How do you change the fonts in your title?
By Pseudosanity, November 8, 2005 @ 1:50 am
Falconmyst,
The title is an image, not text. There are quite a few websites that would aid you in creating such an image. I personally prefer creating them using CorelDraw.