A PhD student, who I met at my confirmation seminar, rang me up today. This male student is my old classmate in the Master of Management degree program. We set up a meeing on Saturday (tomorrow!). Initially, he mentioned that he wanted to have study friends as he is working full time. He also wants to get information about a PhD confirmation seminar as his turn comes soon. That is all fine for me.
However, my supervisor RD told me, "Be careful". What does this mean?
The guy has co- principle supervisors and one of them is RD. The primaly person who usually looks after him is at Nathan campus to which he belongs. According to RD, he already gave him an initial direction for his research, explained the possible methodologies, how he can design and organise his study, and how he can write up his thesis. That amazed me a lot. What RD did to the guy is completely different from what I have got from RD.
The guy concerns his methodology and his approach is a case study based on Yin (a positivistic view). He uses a survey that seems no problem. What else he wants to know, especially from me??
It is interesting. I will find out the meaning of RD's "Be careful" tomorrow.
In the meantime, I decided to attend the "Thesis Writing Group" workshop. I missed the first one because I totally forgot. A lovery staff gave me a reminder for the second chance. I am really interested in joining this group for knowing people rather than working on my thesis at this workshop. It will be held on Monday.
I am working hard on marking assignments of underdraduate students. There are more than 140 papers around me. It is really frustrating when I see bad assignments because they are totally far away from the course reqirements. How can I give them Pass??? They study little. I am having sleepless nights because of this. I really want to get rid of this task as soon as possible as I have to prepare my presentation for a conference.
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