"the change needs to be in the mindset of students"
this is BS!
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tired of this same old crap being reheated & served across contexts. mentor is busy, change mentees; men are busy, change women; etc.
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Busy?! Really? Role playing is perhaps more accurate but... who cares?! THEIR problem, never that of the "counterpart"!
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I know — this idea of setting PhD student's expectations to low is really REALLY disturbing!
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this is completely independent of supervisors failing to do their job. This is their own fault.
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OK, yes, agreed on this.
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Although the article I'm/we're criticizing doesn't implore students to protect their rights it just tells them to set expectations to low
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and then kind of implies undermining their supervisor. A woman PI for example might feel extremely undermined by a student who thinks the
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indeed, you can't have the fruits without taking care of the roots
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"Harvesting" is a little scary given connotations — but otherwise agreed.
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Supervisors often don't have the skills in topics their students will require (because they never needed them) 1/2
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For example, I couldn't mentor a student in coding in any meaningful way. But I'd certainly try to find them a course
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On other ends I think it's a good idea to have several people to turn to for different things
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If she means one needs to be proactive in approaching the PI, it's a weird way to put it
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