diane07

Hi everybody, I am a first year graduate student and am the first student in my lab (brand new professor/PI). I love my project, and get along great with the two post-docs and my PI, but there were just interviews of the new potential incoming class and my PI talked to a student that I can tell he absolutely loves. He has been gushing about this student to myself and the post-docs, saying how excited he was and that he hopes that he'll at least rotate in our lab. Now, maybe I'm just being paranoid because my project is in a bit of a rut, but I can't help but feel super anxious that I'm going to get shelved if this student joins our lab and hence get little to no guidance from my PI. Based on the nature of my project (and the fact I'm relatively new to a lot of these techniques), he's been really involved in the process, and I'm worried that having this student join will completely change this dynamic. Am I crazy? Has anyone else had to deal with this? I don't know how to communicate these worries to my PI without sounding like a jealous older sibling fighting for my parents' attention. Thanks for reading!