Navigating the choppy sea that is your relationship with your advisor

Sometimes real, always legendary, is the advisor who seems to pump out Ph.D.’s like little baby bunnies. I have talked to students who’ve had the pleasure to work with an advisor like this, but like a child born into royalty, they cannot fully appreciate their good fortune having had no other situation for comparison. However [...]

Oh where, oh where has my advisor gone?

Oh where, oh where has my advisor gone?
Oh where, oh where can he be?
With his vacant office and his absent emails,
Oh where, oh where can he be?
What’s your first response to rejection? Blaming yourself? Lashing out with anger? Reactionary hopelessness? Most likely you’ve had ample opportunity to hone how you cope with unreturned phone calls [...]