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[wolffyluna]

Welp. Just got my replacement Honours project.

I’m sure I’ll be more philosophical about it after I’ve slept on it, but right now I am like a five year old that has just had an adult with a tense smile place a plate of brussel sprouts in front of them, and is wracking their little five year old brain for the politest way to say ‘I don’t want that, I want the cake you just took away from me.’

(I mean this is a mixed metaphor because my supervisor is in no way responsible for the 'cake' being taken away. But tell that to my brain.)

([whiny voice] I'm gonna have to throw out so much backgroung research. And work on a thing that is less cool. And maybe some of it is that I know less about the new thing and so I don't know about the cool thing-- but some of it is that it is legit less Cool(TM). And because my university doesn't do half measures with confusion, apparently depending on when the university re-opens, I might have to switch back to my original project? Because this won't cause confusion, consternation and a lack of time at all.

And of course, when my supervisor was telling me about the new project, he went "So, I have some data that you could analyse to find [thing that is much more related to my original project]-- which I have already done. I just have to write the paper. But you could also use that data set to find out..." and I'm a bit >:\ at that presentation. Way to get my hopes up!)

Comments

[yvannairie]

Well that's just fucking rude >:|

Anyway, this definitely sucks and you're well-within your rights to be upset and discouraged. It also sucks that there's not any adjacent research you could do to tide you over until you can start running your original experiments, because what is even the point of getting attached to a project you never get to complete?

[chocochipbiscuit]

This sounds incredibly frustrating. >:

[wolffyluna]

Thank you for your sympathy, it is much appreciated.

[zdenka]

I'm sorry. This whole thing has gotta be so frustrating.

[wolffyluna]

Thank you for your sympathy, it is much appreciated.

[wolffyluna]

The temptation to just... defer till next semester Is High. Like, it is explicitly available listed as an option. And provided a nice-case scenario for the pandemic, it's not a crazy idea? I'd get to do the project I actually wanted, and I wouldn't even be disadvantaging the other Honours students. I've had back to back to back disasters that mean I only had two days in the lab. "Let's try this again in three months time" seems incredibly reasonable.

I'll think on it. But it's tempting.