Posted by alexandra_k on October 9, 2018, at 20:57:36
In reply to Re: Today's Dominion Post, posted by alexandra_k on October 9, 2018, at 18:06:28
I am kind of afraid about my thesis. I don't trust the Universities in this country, anymore. The University keeps on about how I can take up to 5 years to do a 1 year qualification. Becuase it takes me out of the workforce, I see. Because it means they don't need to worry about a job for me. Beause instead of worrying about me having money to live off, they can have me borrow (not even enough to lvie off) from the government year after year after year after year after year...
Because the University is more interested in keeping graduate students to do grading where they are expected to grade, like, one essay in 20 minutes or something like that. So, either you don't take the (unpaid time) to read them / think about them / comment on them properly, or you get used to fairly much throwing them to the wind...
I didn't think it was a big deal that my supervisor didn't see fit to penalise undergraduates for submitting work late... But I see that it has become a big deal for me, since I needed to work to a tight deadline.
Compounded with the University saying I had 5 years over and over and over and over... Inviting me to half a day training to do a timeline... Inviting me to these writing things where you are taught to write in 20 minute bursts (in other words, just when you are getting started it's time to stop)...
I did my timeline... But it was a 'worst case' from my perspective. I suppose I have been... Bullrushing things, rather. Not really giving my supervisor time to comment and so on. Because I don't trust them. How many students have they got through graduate level qualifications in a timely fashion? Are there any? I don't trust them. There would be something wrong with me if I did trust them given the messages they've been giving me.
They withdrew my application to enrol so they could make a change to it (alter my ID number since I'd been allocated one years and years ago) and then they resubmitted it late. THen they didn't process it because it was considered submitted late.
I protested.
THen they took more than the standard 6 weeks to process the application to enrol. WHen I said on my application I had reason to get through / finish quickly and they actually had the discretion to approve things significantly more quickly. In the face of that they went out of their way to delay the processing.
So I couldn't start until May. When I made it clear I wanted to start in March. They delayed for 2 months (8 weeks).
Then they kept telling me I could do it.. I couldn't do it. It wouldn't be fair to other students. Then they kept telling me what I did was crap and wasn't good enough (and they hadn't read it).
So when my supervisor says 'I've read it and it isn't good enough' it doesn't mean anything.
And then she says she will fail it. Only she's 1 of 3 judges... And the Dean decides not her.
There's a basic...
Failure.
I don't know if they will pass me or what.
I think they think their job is to make me sweat. But I don't see why.
Why can't we get on with our jobs for the greater good?
?
I have no f*ck*ng idea.
Anyway... I found a couple of my timelines and I see why my supervisor was freaking out that I was getting things in under time when she always was planning on the latest time (and then some) whereas I was always the other way around.
Wouldn't it be easier if people just did what they said they would do? I just... I don't trust because I keep getting the messages that they are trying to trick me and they have no intention of letting me get this done if there is any possible way for them to prevent my doing that...
I wonder if our little speech about child abuse will deter foreign students coming here to study at tertiary levels.
The sad thing is: I don't expect so.
That's why the people in charge don't feel badly about abusing their kids. I guess.
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