Is that I don't feel like I am being advised.
I barely know my advisor and I am quite sure that if she saw me outside of our advising appointments, she wouldn't know me from Adam.
Well....she might know me from Adam, but not from Eve.
I have been in her office the grand total of two times, totaling less than thirty minutes altogether. I must say I am really disappointed. I found my advising relationship to be very helpful when I was an undergrad.
Of course, graduate students are probably expected to have their act together and not need advising in the same sense that undergrads do. I guess my big beef with the system is that I can't use my advisor as a resource because she doesn't even know who I am. Unfortunately, I don't even have classes with her. Most of my classes are with adjunct professors who teach only a class here and there.
The two advising appointments I did have were simply another step in the process of registration. Since I did my program so quickly, I don't have many choices about what classes to take. Since the program is stuffed to the gills I didn't have much choice about what section of classes I could be in either. I just prayed that I was able to get into all of my classes without having a conflict, let alone actually trying to plan the ideal schedule.
All I have left is the internship, so my meeting today was nothing more than her signing a piece of paper and me going on my merry way.
And of course, the obligatory "good luck."
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