kayaker247

Thanks for the advice, rising_star. By not paying me any attention, I mean that I've only met with her twice this semester. She stops answering her email for weeks and never responds to emails overall. Our program moves very quickly, so I have two years to complete a master's degree and three more to complete the Ph.D. So, it is necessary for the advisor to work closely with their students. Additionally, she has violated some professorial ethics and has encouraged students to have improper relations with research subjects. Ethically, I'm extremely opposed to her. What do you think about switching advisors but remaining in the anthropology department?

I just started my master's in anthropology in a small anthropology department. I don't like my advisor and it's clear from her lack of attention that she is not concerned with helping her grad students become high-achievers. Additionally, she is not ethical in her practice of anthropology or her guidance of students. I've debated switching advisors, but she is tenured and people in the department don't like getting in her way. Because of that, I'm not sure it is worth the headache of switching advisors--or if it is even feasible to switch advisors. I don't know who to ask about this in the department since I'm new and I don't really have any professors that I can trust yet. I've been considering switching to a master's of public health program. It fits my research interests better and possibly my career interests. I've become more interested in applied methodologies and I'm not sure that anthropology is a good fit for me anymore. If I had known about the public health program at this university, I would've applied to it. I have a 5 year fellowship through the university that I could most likely transfer to the public health program. I'm wondering if I can just transfer into the master's of public health program for the spring or if I'll have to apply and stay in the department of anthropology for the spring semester. My questions are 1) Has anyone had issues like these with their advisor? Any advice? 2) Has anyone switched graduate programs? Any advice about switching? Thanks in advance!

My girlfriend and I are planning to buy a house too after we live in Lafayette, IN for a year. The houses are so cheap there that it makes more sense to buy than to rent. We'll be there for at least 6 years, so putting that money toward a mortgage rather than rent will be beneficial in the long run. We are planning to use the house as rental property after we leave. The money we get from renting it will finish paying off that mortgage and then help pay off our next mortgage.

I haven't heard anything from them, but I haven't emailed them yet. It's getting really late in the game. Did you email them?