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When your dissertation advisor disagrees with your research direction

My dissertation advisor and I have fundamentally different ideas about what my research should become and we've been dancing around this disagreement for eight months through polite revisions and careful language. I can feel us both getting frustrated but neither of us is naming what's actually happening and I'm supposed to defend in six months.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You and your advisor are quietly fighting over your research and neither of you will say it out loud.

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