[AFRI NIFA 2014]

Congrats Fishtox!!

[PhD advisor makes me want to dropout]

A huge rant but.. if you can give me advice I'd be very grateful! 

 

So I'm a third year PhD student (in biology) with a Masters degree already. I joined my current PhD program to work for a specific PI and to take on a specific project. When I started I had a list of questions that I needed to answer, which shaped the project.

 

I was under the impression that if I worked hard (and by hard I mean insane amount of hours) that I would finish when the project was "completed" and not after a set amount of years. Anyways, after 2 years I have answered all of the original questions with great results, however my PI has decided to add more questions to my project.  Although they are related, they are very time intensive and will add another 3 years to finish.

 

I have been told to not work as much (more like 40 hours per week), but that seems to be a waste of my time when I could be more productive and move on to a postdoc quicker!

 

I am wondering if anyone has been in a similar situation and how you handled it.

[AFRI NIFA 2014]

Any luck yet?

 

Nothing yet for me. 

[AFRI NIFA 2014]

Samsies. I really hope this doesn't get delayed. I had to deal with that for the EPA STAR 2013. 17 months from the day of submission until they told us they would go ahead with the awards. It was ZERO fun.

 

I also hope they don't delay. If I find out that I'm awarded the fellowship before August 1st I can still back out of TAing. However, if it's into August than I'll have to begin the fellowship Spring semester :/

[AFRI NIFA 2014]

I'm so glad I found this forum. I was giving up hope - people in my department previous years found out in May or June.