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Make peace or war against supervisor?

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Thank for more opinions.

@windowsill: The screwed-up things are: i don't have any external individual connections. Because everything have to go through her. On the technical side of the project at least. It's the school policy because they were afraid on the whole properties right and stuffs

I also thought about throw all these away, but I'm in my 3rd year already. And i have devote a lot of time on these, even couldn't make time and ended up missing out on my friend and cousin oversea wedding. And honestly the thought of something like this happens again scare the crap out of me.

I think i will go and talk to the union at least.

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Good luck with all.

Didn't know how it's organized in the sciences as I am in the humanities. I just went off on my own to conferences to get to know people, but it seems more complicated in your case because of those properties rights and stuff. That said it's still good to get out and talk to different people (maybe worth getting in touch with those other students that also suffered?). Maybe they might not be of direct help but it can be psychologically good just getting different opinions and just to talk. And a little hobby is good too to keep you sane, like running or so. Look after yourself. It definitely helped me to stay focused on my thesis despite all the horrible supervisor stuff.

My troubles with my supervisor happened in my 3rd year as well and I thought: this is game over. But I am about to submit in autumn. There is hope. Things can improve. Hope the union has very good advice. They should have, because fraud is no small accusation.

G

Have some updates, unfortunately some bad news here to those who in my situation.

I took an advice from some of the school body, and to focus sorely on improving my works, and try to avoid too much confrontation with my supervisor, and try to keep thing professional.

The result is horrible. You know last 3 months when I spent time trying to improve my works. My supervisor did almost jack shit to help. On the other hand she has been spending last 3 months trying to imply to those within faculty that my works were not good enough, that I was lying on my publication and even shut down my running experiment without consulting me. And now they tried to force me to accept Master under her condition (the works that she suspected me of not doing were not acknowledged, and so on).

So learn my lesson. NEVER COMPROMISE with them, those lying SOB. Those with power don't compromise, you step back one step and they will exploit your weakness to push you further until you fall off the edge. I still have some reservation, but coming next week I will consult the Student Union for official complaints. If not consulting legal support to see if any grounds on my case. Even if I fail all this and have to take Master, I rather will look to change supervisor and rather do it under someone else.

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