- Have conversation / email with advisor
- Completely misunderstand everything he says (differing communication styles)
- Feel frustrated
- Mutter vague threats under breath for rest of day
- Avoid thesis while feeling frustrated
- Re-read email
- Start fixing problems with thesis
- Realize what advisor intended to communicate (I hope)
- Relaize that most of his suggests are improvements
- Feel sheepish
- Incorporate changes
- Schedule new meeting / send new email
- Repeat
One of us needs to switch to decaf. Also, somebody should write a pedagogy so I can understand Ron the first time. Why do I have to read his email 3 times to understand it?
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2 comments:
yup. i think i understand. there is no way ron is switching to decaf though. he must drink six cups of coffee every morning.
eventually i realized that ron was never trying to be mean, and that he was pretty much incapable of phrasing things the way i expected him to, and then it was easier to incorporate his comments.
anyhow — i think for ron the problem runs deeper than switching to decaf.
i find i really have to concentrate to understand people i don't especially like. and sometimes i don't, anyway.
good luck!
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