Committee Update

I just got an e-mail from the professor with whom I have been trying to curry favor, and I believe my committee will soon be complete. At least I hope so. In any case, the e-mail provided some relief from the feeling of dis-ease I have had since completing and sending off the second draft of the proposal last Friday. I.e., the draft was good, even enjoyable to read. I had been muttering to myself for the past few days about how my heart felt like throwing up; it was/is not really nausea at all, of course. I expect that most graduate students, and perhaps most academics in general, understand this feeling. In any case, I shall know for certain about committee issues in the next couple of days.

P.S. I forgot to add in my last post that the professors of color who have left/are leaving my department were all tenured faculty. Which makes it all even worse. I do not know what future incoming graduate students who desire to be mentored by faculty of color will do now. The faculty of color who remain already have immense workloads and face demands from a large number of current graduate students, including me.

{ADD} Yes, indeed, as I found out later today, I now have all my committee members. I was also able to set the prospectus meeting for mid-December (on the ONLY day that all four of them could make it. Egads -- I can't believe how difficult it was to find just that one day). Now, on to fellowship applications.