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Afasia
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19 May 2015, 5:27 pm

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If you want to know professors better, I suggest that you email them with interest in doing one of their research projects. Often, professors have research projects in need of students to work on, and they will tell you about their projects and ask you to pick one. Then, you will get right to work on it, and communicate with the professor frequently about ideas and progress.

Thank you for your advice! This year I had no idea of how research works in this field, I felt totally lost! I also noticed that mist of professors consider we weird (I hope not stupid at least), my supervisor always seems to laugh at me! I guess that another of my future goals will be to improve the communication with professors, I get in panic any time that I have to write them an e-mail, and I guess this makes me look extremely childish...



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19 May 2015, 5:31 pm

...Will I ever have a " career " ? I'd like to be optimistic , but :( ...



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19 May 2015, 11:28 pm

Afasia wrote:
btbnnyr wrote:
If you want to know professors better, I suggest that you email them with interest in doing one of their research projects. Often, professors have research projects in need of students to work on, and they will tell you about their projects and ask you to pick one. Then, you will get right to work on it, and communicate with the professor frequently about ideas and progress.

Thank you for your advice! This year I had no idea of how research works in this field, I felt totally lost! I also noticed that mist of professors consider we weird (I hope not stupid at least), my supervisor always seems to laugh at me! I guess that another of my future goals will be to improve the communication with professors, I get in panic any time that I have to write them an e-mail, and I guess this makes me look extremely childish...


You can improve on communication with professors and others by doing it and getting more practice doing it. The anxiety will decrease if you have some good communications and get used to it. It is really a big benefit to have an advisor/mentor in a masters program. You would have to go out of your comfort zone to find one, but it is worth it.


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20 May 2015, 2:04 am

btbnnyr wrote:
Afasia wrote:
btbnnyr wrote:
If you want to know professors better, I suggest that you email them with interest in doing one of their research projects. Often, professors have research projects in need of students to work on, and they will tell you about their projects and ask you to pick one. Then, you will get right to work on it, and communicate with the professor frequently about ideas and progress.

Thank you for your advice! This year I had no idea of how research works in this field, I felt totally lost! I also noticed that mist of professors consider we weird (I hope not stupid at least), my supervisor always seems to laugh at me! I guess that another of my future goals will be to improve the communication with professors, I get in panic any time that I have to write them an e-mail, and I guess this makes me look extremely childish...


You can improve on communication with professors and others by doing it and getting more practice doing it. The anxiety will decrease if you have some good communications and get used to it. It is really a big benefit to have an advisor/mentor in a masters program. You would have to go out of your comfort zone to find one, but it is worth it.

Thank you! Really! :)