artimacia

Yea, taking a medical leave will burn the fewest bridges, give you personal time to think things over, and they wouldn't look down on you or anything, I would imagine they would be supportive

My first summer, I TA'd for a class and worked about 30-40 hours at my lab. This summer, since it's time to finish up my thesis and projects, I'm working 40-60 hours and proctoring for four classes.

Have you thought about maybe taking a leave of absense on medical reasons? Use that time to seek treatment and think over what you truely want to do.

I'm in the opposite situation. My adviser always rips apart everything that I do, that it's never up to her specifications. She'll give me revisions, I'll do them, and the next time she looks over it, there's a whole new list of problems of how I'm "just not getting it". I worry that as I start sending her bits of my thesis to review (I aim to defend in late October, so I'm starting to put everything together now so she can review it before), it'll never be good enough to her to ever send to my committee. I would just take what your committee has said and fix the issues. Like they said above me, don't be hard on yourself over it. We all go through it, every one of us. The fact that you're even at this stage of your thesis is a major accomplishment that many haven't be able to get to.

I've been thinking a bit about staying in academia. I'm almost done with my Master's, people keep asking if I'm going to do my PhD but one of the main reasons is that A) I don't know of any PhD programs in forensics and My lab PI. I love the field I'm working in, I love the work I do and hope to eventually work for a large crime lab on major cases. A PhD in my field wouldn't help me in what I really want to do and would just put me in more debt. I love teaching the classes I have, I would love to have my own pick at what to research, etc... but watching my PI each day, all the grant writing, paper writing, constantly dealing with companies over research intentions, and the fact that she just seems generally unhappy all the time has really pushed me away from it.

I would agree, it all depends. You could dress a little casually if you're assisting a professor, a little nicer if you're actually teaching the class, etc... My situation is a little different. I've TA'd for two years, but it was in a lab. It was better to wear more casual clothes because they may potentially get ruined, not to mention we always wore lab coats.

I had a similar situation. I was proctoring for a very large lecture and noticed one guy kept glancing around, looked very nervous. I noticed he'd barely written on his exam, but kept looking at people around him. I had another proctor watch him for awhile to see if he felt the same, and he came back and said that it was very suspicious and he ended up telling the professor. Not sure what happened to him, but ever since then, the professor always goes over his no cheating policy before every quiz and exam. What I didn't know was that some students were turning in exams under other peoples' names. We always have to check ID's now just to allow them to turn in exams. You did the right thing, they knew what could happen if they cheated and they did it anyway. In the end, they're ultimately hurting themselves by not doing the work themselves, and they'll eventually figure this out when they start regular jobs and can't get by.