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My Thesis Supervisor Hasn't Replied in a Month
Negotiation duel: Graduating student ↔ Thesis supervisor. The thesis is due in June; your chapters are ready, but without your supervisor's edits and sign-off it all falls through. For a month he's been 'at a conference, then at office hours'. The deadline is…
Roles in the duel:
Side A: Graduating student — goal: Get the edits and the defense sign-off — without a falling-out and without running to the dean's office.
Side B: Thesis supervisor — goal: Keep his own schedule: 'everyone defends in June, and so will you.'
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