I've got a DATE... For meeting my Honors thesis supervisor! And you all thought what?? This is the good academic news rubric ✌️
Actually, this is a huge good thing for many reasons:
- we were told about professors not being paid for supervising exactly this type of Thesis so there needs to be an academic who REALLY is interested in your work to dedicate their time, attention and effort for that and the chances that they'll agree are pretty low (e.g. one student wrote to 2 and none answered, one student got declined)
- my thesis is NOT related to my major. At all. Which is actually demanded by the program I'm in but many students find the ways to still imply their major. I made a firm decision not to do so and imply something outside it but within my previous educational background which with the educational system of my current Uni could've been considered a separate minor (Art History and Literature Studies) within major (Theory and practice of Translation) lol So Art Department here has around 4 professors?? Or around that, meaning it's the smallest department and my chances of success were even smaller than with any other department.
- On top of everything, my thesis needs an open-minded person who has no prejudices and phobias about Ukrainian topics (I put it very politically correctly here) which, from my experience in this city, can be challenging.
- I really feel ambitious about this work and it gives me a sense of purpose for living this year and I really want to get published with it, even though it will eventually not give me any benefits regarding my actual major/potential profession. Yep, THAT ambitious.
- I was told that there is one professor that can be considered as the one who specialises on something related to that. Not fully, not exactly what I write about but still eligible unlike the rest (and I have no idea about ANYONE from that department, I had 0 courses with them). And as I remembered I actually saw him once. It was during the exhibition I can't talk about probably still and he was monitoring a student who practiced to be an exhibition guide. He didn't strike me as a communicative person, all the time he was moody-broody and looked completely unapproachable with trying to stay away from absolutely everyone and from time to time adding something informational and on point when seeing his student getting stressed. So overall the first impression was... Idk, strange? Not like negative but more like "damn, I'm kind of scared to approach him with anything ever in my life, as he looks like we all should leave him tf alone to smoke in a corner". I voiced my concern about approaching him to my proposal instructor and she went like "well, yeah, he's kind of Nick Cave-type of a person from the outside and might seem this way but he's really nice and passionate about helping his students". So imagine my surprise in general when I got "Your idea is very interesting, and I believe I can help you navigate some of its possible ramifications/implications. I would be happy to help you with your undergrad thesis from the position of advisor" just half an hour after my email and in general he was really quick to respond to emails about the meeting and not "wait 2-5 business days for me to confirm anything" O_O I sincerely hope this vibe STAYS. Folks, wish me luck
