I just started an MSc at the beginning of September, but I'm seriously considering asking to change supervisors. My current supervisor is a lovely person, really kind. A little absent and hard to get in touch with, but not so much that I couldn't deal with it.
The problem is: when he and I discussed my application to grad school a year ago, it was with a very specific project and very specific role for me in mind, and it would have been an amazing opportunity. Suddenly when I arrived in September, I found out the project had fallen through. I've been spending the last 3 weeks trying to come up with some project proposals that would give me the same benefits as the original project, but I just don't see it happening. I'm afraid now that whatever I end up working on will be too much of a compromise, and won't set me on the career path I want to be on.
There is another professor in the same department whose work interests me much more. I'm considering talking to both him and the graduate director of the department confidentially next week, just to test the waters and see what my options are, before I waste too much more time. But, I also am worried about giving myself a bad reputation only three weeks in.
Would really value any thoughts!
