will you be my valetine/supervisor?
I know while everyone is stressing over finishing up sch work,
I seriously shouldn't be talking about supervision for MRP.
But after talking to a potential supervisor,
I think I have the perfect analogy to describe the supervisor-supervisee relationship.
It's like dating...
No really, I mean it.
Think about it.
If you are taking a Masters programme, you will more or less "date" your supervisor for one year.
And if you are going after a PhD, who knows how long?
Moreover, after all that education,
you will continue to meet your mentor and work with him/her for as long as you are into what you did for school.
And the whole seeking after the right supervisor
is much like looking for the perfect partner.
Courtship included.
First, you check all the courses that you think you like from the description.
And when you come down to your selection,
you start narrowing down to the one course director you consider potential supervisor
(i.e. developing a crush/infatuation)
You start finding out what he/she is focusing on,
pick his/her brains much like how you go find out birthdays and favourites about a crush.
You ask friends what's he/she likes and if you are his/her type.
If you like what you hear,
the infatuation furthers...
erm, I mean you go read up more about the potential thesis you want to propose.
And you work on your "talk" and your "walk"
I mean a working proposal.
It is quite the Valentine's Day ordeal.
(as in the sort that you watch in animes and Japanese dramas)
You prep the proposal/chocolate.
You present the proposal/chocolate to your supervisor/crush
and declare your love (works both ways).
He/She says thank you but don't really tell you the answer as yet.
Afterall he/she has to take time to digest this previously unspoken love.
And you wait.
While he/she takes in more proposals/chocolates from other girls.
Until White Valentine's come along.
Then you get your answer.
If everything goes your way, you will proceed to date for the next year.
And if he/she says no, you get upset for a week or two,
Then you move on, find the next potential one.
Go through the same process until you do get one.
And in the very last semester of being "supervisorless",
the administration might assign one to you.
"On Supervisormatch.com, you'll answer a questionaire
and the system will allocate to you whoever is most compatible."
Sigh... Good ol' matchmaking comes in.
See isn't it like dating?
I seriously shouldn't be talking about supervision for MRP.
But after talking to a potential supervisor,
I think I have the perfect analogy to describe the supervisor-supervisee relationship.
It's like dating...
No really, I mean it.
Think about it.
If you are taking a Masters programme, you will more or less "date" your supervisor for one year.
And if you are going after a PhD, who knows how long?
Moreover, after all that education,
you will continue to meet your mentor and work with him/her for as long as you are into what you did for school.
And the whole seeking after the right supervisor
is much like looking for the perfect partner.
Courtship included.
First, you check all the courses that you think you like from the description.
And when you come down to your selection,
you start narrowing down to the one course director you consider potential supervisor
(i.e. developing a crush/infatuation)
You start finding out what he/she is focusing on,
pick his/her brains much like how you go find out birthdays and favourites about a crush.
You ask friends what's he/she likes and if you are his/her type.
If you like what you hear,
the infatuation furthers...
erm, I mean you go read up more about the potential thesis you want to propose.
And you work on your "talk" and your "walk"
I mean a working proposal.
It is quite the Valentine's Day ordeal.
(as in the sort that you watch in animes and Japanese dramas)
You prep the proposal/chocolate.
You present the proposal/chocolate to your supervisor/crush
and declare your love (works both ways).
He/She says thank you but don't really tell you the answer as yet.
Afterall he/she has to take time to digest this previously unspoken love.
And you wait.
While he/she takes in more proposals/chocolates from other girls.
Until White Valentine's come along.
Then you get your answer.
If everything goes your way, you will proceed to date for the next year.
And if he/she says no, you get upset for a week or two,
Then you move on, find the next potential one.
Go through the same process until you do get one.
And in the very last semester of being "supervisorless",
the administration might assign one to you.
"On Supervisormatch.com, you'll answer a questionaire
and the system will allocate to you whoever is most compatible."
Sigh... Good ol' matchmaking comes in.
See isn't it like dating?