My direction:
1) Prepare for candidacy
2) Collect data and analyse
3) Write thesis and submit
4) Graduate!

Main Supervisor direction:
1) Write ISI papers (pushing for 3 ISI papers published per year)
2) Ask me to attend workshops on behalf of him/her because he/she could not attend it. However, he/she needs the notes but cannot stay in the seminar for long. So, I have to be there to jot down notes for him/her. These workshops and seminars has nothing to do with me.
3) He/she loves to say "You do not have a choice." Even my own boss doesn't say this to me. zzz
4) I only want to enrol for Masters by Research. He/she wants me to enrol for PhD. (Note: I do not have any background on researching at all. Researching/thesis writing is not covered in undergraduate level).

I cannot sleep every night because of this.
First, he/she is my main supervisor. I must listen is it? Dun I have a choice?

OK, I read it all.

TS, your supervisor is a male or female?
Maybe you can talk to SV that you can publish conference paper/proceeding paper.....and if you get lucky, you'll get to publish into ISI.

Have you talk about your concern to the main SV? Like how you share in LYN?
IMO, just follow for one semester first.
But, if you have discussed with SV and still not working, you shall seek assistance from Head of Postgrad / whoever incharge in student-SV relationship.

internal -> mediator -> external

Sure you do not want to cause any bad things in doing your research, right?



This post has been edited by leah235: Sep 9 2013, 09:16 PM

My main supervisor is male.

I have talk to him about this before, but all he has to say is "We will talk about this later". And the later never comes.

Since I do not want to wait about his "later", I wrote an email to him about my concerns. But until today, I received no replies whatsoever from him.

Well, you may do inquiry and report to person in charge. Of course, you wouldn't want to jeopardise your study.

im waiting for him to come back and talk to me about his. I dun want to jeopardize my studies too, but if i dun take control of my own study, then he will.

that's the spirit.

alright. Finally, decision have been made. He is no longer my supervisor.

OK, Set!

Yea, thanks.