Posted by alexandra_k on December 9, 2018, at 10:07:37
In reply to Re: I don't know what to do, posted by alexandra_k on December 9, 2018, at 9:55:20
When I was an undergraduate I'm fairly sure that it was departmental policy that you lose 5% of your grade (drop a grade e.g., from a B to a B-) for every day you submitted it late (where late was time-stamped so 9.05am was one day late on a 9am deadline and may as well have been submitted 8:55am the following day). And that was enforced. And I never handed in anything late. Even if it meant I was up all night and walking up to the Uni at break of dawn to hand it in.
And I respected that. Because I worked my *ss off to get quality work handed in, in time. Whereas other people were 'care less' about it and they would choose to go out partying (for example) the night before and then work on it the next day while hungover...
My current supervisor was only just arriving as I was finishing up the second year of my Master's... I was persuaded into believing that taking 2 years for my Master's was appropriate because my honours level grades needed to be back and final before I could be accepted into PhD programs and I wanted to apply to northern hemisphere programs so what else would I do with my time?? May as well simply take longer on my Masters and by being enrolled I'd be eligable to pick up extra teaching work...
Grading for her later it surprised me that she kept saying 'and here's another one' and then 'and heres another 5' and then '7 more popped up over the next week' (when we were grading to 2 weeks turnaround time). I asked her how she wanted me to handle lateness / what the policy was and she said something along the lines of 'oh, I don't bother penalising lateness. The late ones typically aren't any better, anyway'. I was floored... But she's the boss...
And now she's my boss...
And I thought that since she didn't care about late she probably didn'dt care about early either. I mean... I could just get it done...
Only then she's late with every single thing she needs to do. A funding reimbursement sits in her tray for 5 weeks... Comments on my work don't all come back before her deadline... She somehow can't find examiners for more than the standard time. There was even confusion there because she seemed to think the role of examiners is to simply agree with her assessment. I guess one of the examiners always says 'I think the candidate should keep working on this for an extended enrolment period'. Especially when she's the one doing the asking... I suppose that's it.
If this gets through the field will be unhappy with her because she didn't bully me out of it. My thesis is my thesis. Clearly. It isn't 1 year of me subjugating myself to spew my supervisors line. And that... Well... That would be bad precedent.
We need to remember things about the charter of the university. Something about critic and conscience of society. Something about a footnote to a comment about the meaning of meaning... You could be diverted to wasting your life working on rubbish like that. Enjoying the alcohol and the parties and every opportunity to kick the other people back...
Awful people.
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