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1. The Enchanted - Rene Denfield
Academia nuts
Sunday. 11.23.14 8:48 am
Right, someone must have eaten lots macadamia nuts.

I wrote a research proposal after graduated 10 years ago. And.. I approached an associate professor about the proposal after he suggested me to look into the Social Exchange Theory.

I read it and I found 'what the hell' that someone could come up with such theory. It was interesting yet confusing to comprehend fully in-depth and to apply.

So anyways, I wrote it and sent to two lecturers. One of them is the associate professor. He asked for a meet up and I appeared.

He has a lot of feedback but throughout he kept on apologising if he was too blunt. The feedback was not really blunt but luckily it was constructive. And he said... oh well let me summarise:

Your proposal is laughable so please don't share it with others.

Ok. I cried for a few seconds. And then I went to another lecturer who I wished she would supervise me but she has resigned. What a pity. I went over to her office and sought solace in the hot choc and cake. And she came up with a framework for me to consider.

And she said it was not that bad. I have written a framework of my idea and so it just needed some tweaking. It didn't deserve his comment. And the proposal has to be one page not some 3000 words he kept repeating that I didn't do so.

And he wished me luck in getting it right in one month.

Err...

And then he commented that I am bringing an industrial problem to the academic world hence it's a no-no. I got to speak the 'academic' language so bringing an earthly problem is a no-no. And then he said he was from the commercial world and now speaking the language.

If that's the case, why do people go to university for study when it is not applicable in the real world when the real world does not speak the academic language?

Right, he must have eaten too much of macadamia nuts. Or I not enough to reach his standard.
1 Comments.


Some people are just putting down others for the sake of looking smart... I wouldn't choose him to be supervising me, if I were you
» Nuttz on 2014-11-27 11:41:19

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