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What If Your PhD Advisor Isn’t Supposed to ‘Extract Value’ from You?
Most people believe a PhD advisor is supposed to “add value.” Or that a student is supposed to “add value.”
Like there’s this clean exchange.
Like everybody knows what they’re doing.
But if you’ve spent even five minutes in this world, you know that’s not true.
What actually happens is two people trying to survive the same weird, messy system where nobody has a clue what the right answer is. Everyone is guessing. Everyone is under pressure. Everyone is trying not to look like a screw-up. And that’s when all the strange behavior shows up.
People defect.
People ghost.
People walk away just when…
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