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[upinmytree]

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Lately, I'm really relating to this song. The amount of good that I don't do is just embarrassing, and I can't believe my own excuses anymore.

Yes, it's true that the fucking IRB is doing its very best to ruin my life, holding my application in limbo and tying my hands. I literally cannot move forward on my master's thesis until they give the go-

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So you've proposed and everything but haven't begun collecting data? I haven't proposed yet but am done with my study, lol.

Why is IRB dragging their heels? We've had lots of problems with IACUC too.

[upinmytree]

Yeah. It's bad over here. Some people get a response in a day, others in 4 months, and there's no explanation offered as to why.

Since I had to generate my own stimuli for the experiment in question, this is my second application (it's more complicated than that, but it would take forever to type out). They misfiled my first one, and of course, ignored my emails, delaying my stimuli work by about a month. I had to get my advisor to call them himself just so they would look into it. Now, with the current study, they (finally) gave me approval, but it's only for data analysis, not collection. Well, I need to *collect* the data, so there's nothing to analyze. So now I've filed an amendment so that they can reverse their own mistake. And I'm just sitting here watching the subject pool run out while they figure out how to do their jobs.