This is absolute insanity. At Brunel University, law students had to literally stand in line and wait to get a dissertation advisor. First come first serve. Apparently, eager students were lining up as early as 8pm the night before. One collapsed, and while being dragged away by medics, begged to be allowed to stay in line. Fights broke out. I'm guessing someone was trying to cut.
It reminds me of people camping out in line for concert tickets. Except this is for dissertation advisors.
Crazy.
They could at least have a vitual line. Or do it like Ticketmaster - sales open at 8am, order by phone.
I wonder if the advisors have any say in who they get?
Friday, October 2, 2009
Fighting over Dissertation Advisors
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If that was the policy, I would show up two days early with camping gear.
we had that at my school, but i think people had different reasons here (romania). trying to get one of the competent advisors really helped the queue
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