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  1. Yup, so that totally colors my perception of your situation, because I've had some startlingly self absorbed professors. In some way, advising can be like parenting- at a certain point you have to say "okay, spread your wings little student and give it a try," and just like with parents, sometimes they have trouble letting go!
  2. One thing that worries me about the professor is your earlier statement that the professor has been telling you for years that she wishes she hadn't gone straight to graduate school. I had a professor who literally stopped talking to me once I (politely and with support from other professors) declined to follow the path he had suggested! Professors aren't infalliable and some can fixtate on you not "making their mistakes," especially, in my experience, younger professors.
  3. If I eat anything with any amount of gluten, it attacks the aveli in my intestines, causing internal bleeding, gut twisting (the most painful thing you can imagine), horrible stomach and body pains, and usually results in hospitalization for fluids and precautions for the intestinal twisting. Bleeding issues and pain continue for about another three weeks. It's called Celiac's Disease. I have similar annoyances for people who claim the gluten makes them feel "a little off" or are "gluten free" until a cinnamon roll comes around. But I think the severe food allergy people and me share enough of a burden to hang out for a while. Plus just like you said, you don't know how autoimmune issues work with food, and neither does like, 99% of the general population, which makes it difficult to explain why things like vinegar can be problematic (dervived from wheat!)!
  4. Thanks everyone! I really appreciate the feedback. I think I'll avoid the autoimmune label and just say food allergies and just say I'll bring my own food. Thanks for the reassurance!
  5. Hi! I have an autoimmune disease that requires a very limited diet. How can I not come off as high maintenance or having fragile health, two things I don't want to appear?! My health is pretty fine as long as I stay on this diet and follow a treatment protocol, but I feel like the minute I say autoimmune everyone thinks I'm about to keel over on them. I can have water and coffee which is what I've been offered so far, but I'm concerned about visitations that occur over a whole weekend. I always bring my food everywhere, so I figure that's what I'll do, and just say I have food allergies if needed. Does that sound okay?
  6. I applied and got in and attended one semester. I had a B average in a tangentially related undergraduate degree and three years of work experience. I felt the school was disorganized and very behind in terms of technology. They're introduced new programs and as a result scheduling and advising and other issues seemed to be overly complex and with a lot of "not my responsibility" in terms of attitude. However, some people really like it so that's great. I'd go to an intro session if you're able to do so!
  7. (Apologies for posting here, when I did a history search it seemed that HDFS had snuck into this subcategory in the past! Please move or delete as needed.) Hi! I was wondering if anyone else was applying to PHD programs in Human Development and Family Studies (and all the slight name variations!) I currently have thirteen programs on my list and am trying to make professor contacts and work on my SOP. I feel like this is a reach for me but I'm excited to try. I have a B.S in Public Health, overall GPA 3.3 (I started out in Biology...), Major GPA 3.7. I took two MSW level classes with a 4.0, and am almost done with an Infant Mental Health Graduate certificate, in which I have a 4.0. I am most interested in Child Development, specifically infant and toddlers. I have done one research related task for a professor at the local university but otherwise have little to no research experience. I have very good recommendation letters from my current boss, my undergraduate advisor, and two professors in my IMH program, and I could definitely dig up an undergraduate professor as well, and I've been in the Early Childhood/Family Services field as a paraprofessional for three years. I'm also looking at some clinical master's programs as I feel like I'm a stronger applicant, but my desire is definitely to go research focused and I feel like doing a master's in a clinical program may not be the best idea as they're more terminal degrees- I'm talking like Clinical Mental Health Counseling, etc.
  8. Did anyone look at pursuing Clinical Mental Health Counseling or another one of the counseling master's degrees before coming to social work? What made you choose social work? I'm trying to figure some things out...I'm really not liking my social work master's program and trying to figure out if its the program or me!
  9. This is a vent. What do you do when you're just so disgusted with how your advisor and program handled a decision that you don't even want to attend the program anymore? I became temporarily disabled. I was told an accommodation was available. I have this in writing from my advisor, citing a conversation with the head of the department. Yay! All relevant paperwork was filled out by me, ahead of schedule, and confirmed to be delivered. I email, call everyone, no one seems to be getting back in touch with me. More and more frantic communication occurs. I go over two weeks without hearing from anyone. Absolutely nothing. Finally, today, on the first day of term I get a call from the dept head telling me the accommodation was never available and they have no idea why they told me it was and that if I have to drop out, I should try to reapply next time the cycle opens (in two years). I also get a snotty email back from the head of the department basically being like "we talked about this, that's final, the end." The email contains five different references to "we didn't think this accommodation through before offering it." this is completely different from the conversation this morning, when the department head stated she had never even heard of me. tune changed. it was a total "covering my ass" letter. I'm just...ick. I don't even want to deal with this program anymore. Its a program in the helping professions so I feel its even worse because we're supposed to have all these great values and I've seen NONE of them in this issue. I really want this qualification and its the only one available in my area. I've looked into online schools but there's nothing equivalent or with such "good" ratings. I'm wondering if I should maybe even switch to a different field...my experience with this program has not been positive.
  10. I wanted to update in case anyone has similar situations (I'd searched a bit here before posting and didn't find too much)- My advisor was wonderful and really understood where I was coming from and stated she'd had similar complaints about the classroom environment. I made sure to be very respectful and very open about my part in this (everything has multiple parts!) and we came away with a good resolution. If there's a concern, please bring it up in a kind and respectful manner to people! Its a wonderful learning opportunity for everyone.
  11. The conspiracy issue was so far out there that to post it would immediately identify me to anyone else from the school/class, and I'm trying to stay a bit more anonymous. It was very far out and I was not the only person who was concerned. I've been very careful to evaluate how I'm contributing to this issue, hence why I've stayed in the class, spoke to the professor, tried to ask questions when appropriate, spoke to mentors, done some investigating into my own attitudes, etc. I think it simply a poor match and that I value different things in a learning environment than what he wants to cultivate. I'm pretty much allergic to one upmanship and that's a problem in general in graduate school, I'm learning! I'll avoid the professor in the future.
  12. Hi everyone, thank you for your responses. As to growing a thicker skin, I expect my peers in class to speak to each other respectfully and not be rude because it is cool or makes the professor laugh. Unfortunately this class has gotten a lot worse in several respects (we've covered no material, the professor allowed people to present a conspiracy theory as a project, we know all about the professor's personal issues, he's encouraged illegal behavior, etc.) so I'm staying quiet and hoping to get a good grade and avoid the professor in the future.
  13. So I had a really uncomfortable class a week ago and I'm really unhappy and don't know how to proceed. I have the next class soon so any advice would be appreciated! I have a very set in his way professor with very opinionated views who does not seem open to discussion, unless it fits his opinions. I've asked some serious, exploring questions and gotten treated very rudely, including being laughed at by the professor and other students. I asked the professor to talk with me after class and he was pretty dismissive. I told him I felt uncomfortable with what had happened and he was all like "well you had a good point." I don't feel like I'm learning much and don't like the atmosphere where honest questions are ridiculed. have this professor in the future and am investigating avoiding future classes with him. A friend from another school suggested emailing him but I don't know if its worth it and I don't want it to affect my grade. My current plan is just to do very well on the assignments and participate once a session so my participation grade won't be affected. Any suggestions? Am I overreacting? Should I just ignore this?
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