Hi all, I lurked on this site during the application process and it was a help. Now I'm accepted but a recent event is causing me a lot of soul-searching:
I'm a first-year doctoral student in cinema studies, and the faculty member I was expecting to be my advisor was just denied tenure. There are other profs (tenured ones at that) with similar interests that I can go too and it won't be the end of the world; i'm not completely alone. But at the same time...a lot of my application and reason for coming to my current institution was wrapped up with this person's presence here. So now what do I do! Going through the application process again seems like a nightmare, and I'm already afraid of the stigma and burned bridges if I were to leave this program after they invested in me (see i'm keeping all the info vague for that reason? ). But I'm going through the list of reasons I'm happy to be in this program and now there's a big crater in the middle of it.
Anyone gone through anything like this, have any advice? I learned they were denied tenure yesterday so this is probably all the grieving process...I'll be content to move on in like a week. But ughhhhh this sucks.
