/sci/, having some difficulty with my phd. I started about 3.5 years ago. I lost my first 1.25 years and had to change subfields because I had a shitty advisor who was insane and when he lost some funding, he kicked me and 2 other people out of his lab.
After basically my first year wasted, I found my current advisor. I've been in his lab for 2 years now and don't have a single first author publication (which is pretty shitty for someone close to their 4th year in engineering).
I can feel my advisor getting frustrated with me. The issue is that he put me on a project which we thought would be easy and yield a quick publication. In reality, every intuitive solution we've tried has not worked. I think deep down my advisor thinks that there are bugs in my code, but for whatever reason doesn't say this straight-forwardly. I feel like he prefers my labmates and tries to avoid talking to me as much as possible (because he probably thinks I'm incompetent). I know for a fact that he responds to my labmates' emails within 24 hours, but often takes 3-4 days to get back to me.
He's a nice guy and has funded me so far, but I fear he's going to get pissed off eventually and just say I'm no longer worth the investment. I don't know what to do. The project was his idea and when we meet, he doesn't have any greater insight into solving it than I do. I feel like he's taking shit out on me in a passive-aggressive way. I'm trying to work by myself on my own ideas (an unrelated project), but that always takes lots of time. Ideally I would discover something and solve it, then show him. He's a very "academic" introverted person, so I don't know how to tell him that...you know, this isn't my fucking fault and this is just as important to me as you (if not more, because I need papers to graduate).
I once asked him if he wanted me to send him weekly updates and he basically said no and that I should just work more closely with my labmate.
WTF do I do /sci/?
After basically my first year wasted, I found my current advisor. I've been in his lab for 2 years now and don't have a single first author publication (which is pretty shitty for someone close to their 4th year in engineering).
I can feel my advisor getting frustrated with me. The issue is that he put me on a project which we thought would be easy and yield a quick publication. In reality, every intuitive solution we've tried has not worked. I think deep down my advisor thinks that there are bugs in my code, but for whatever reason doesn't say this straight-forwardly. I feel like he prefers my labmates and tries to avoid talking to me as much as possible (because he probably thinks I'm incompetent). I know for a fact that he responds to my labmates' emails within 24 hours, but often takes 3-4 days to get back to me.
He's a nice guy and has funded me so far, but I fear he's going to get pissed off eventually and just say I'm no longer worth the investment. I don't know what to do. The project was his idea and when we meet, he doesn't have any greater insight into solving it than I do. I feel like he's taking shit out on me in a passive-aggressive way. I'm trying to work by myself on my own ideas (an unrelated project), but that always takes lots of time. Ideally I would discover something and solve it, then show him. He's a very "academic" introverted person, so I don't know how to tell him that...you know, this isn't my fucking fault and this is just as important to me as you (if not more, because I need papers to graduate).
I once asked him if he wanted me to send him weekly updates and he basically said no and that I should just work more closely with my labmate.
WTF do I do /sci/?
