Ph.D. Politics

[nirvelli_lynn]

As much as I'm not happy about it... There is thought among my cohorts to look at other schools. This sucks. *sigh* It's not our fault nor is there concern that my program won't be here.... but we are loosing many majour faculty ... By next fall, my dept will have lost 4 major faculty leaving only 4 behind (plus one clinical prof). Of these faculty, only 2 have really had much contact with the phd students... My advisor, is actually the advisor of ALL three of the new phd students... And even he is considering leaving... His initiative to leave has steadily grown over the past semester... And while they say that advisors often take their students... I doubt he would be able to take all of us... or even just Doug and I... since I don't know if Dustin is interested in starting over... And I have no problem with starting over... esp if it gives me more options later... but I really have a bit of deep nervousness about this... because if we loose Jonathan, basically we really don't have much of a program... Doug is considering re-taking the GMAT. I am don't know what I'm considering... but if Jonathan goes... and can't take me with him... I will be applying to new schools.. again... *sigh* funny how the moment you think you're settled for awhile... you find out... not really so much...