coping with your phd advisor

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>I will not under any circumstances read the first draft of your journal paper that my name is on

>I will only provide superficial comments to the completed document a week before submission. It must be entirely free of what I consider to be errors before I will do this. Please note this important criteria.

> When you are lucky enough to receive these comments, note that they will add nothing of substance to the paper whatsoever. They are very important.

>No, you may not under any circumstances discuss this project with your labmates. No, we may not all work together. Each student must be contained in a concrete silo that I will visit once every 3 months to collect my new gift-authored paper.

>No, I do not have any answers to any of your technical questions.

>Please refrain from asking me any career questions. We should keep our meetings focused on technical questions.