I don't friggen get it. This kid in my lab is about at the end of my patience. I don't understand him AT ALL. We are both here for a masters which takes 2 years. Maybe 2.5 to write all the corrections and get your thesis finalized. I am almost done with all my experiments and should be done in May of next year. He got here 6 months before me and is still setting up new plots and doesn't have hardly any data. He is always just in his office reading or writing emails. I never see him doing any experiments at all. Or he will get this idea in his head...begin an experiment and never follow through.

My advisor and dept. head have already asked me to stay for a PhD and have been working on getting me a fellowship so that I won't go elsewhere. Supposedly he went and asked and they asked him to stay, too! What the hell?! This kid does absolutely NOTHING. How are we even close to being at the same level to where they would "love" to have him stay also?!

Not to mention...he has always said he thinks getting a PhD is stupid. He doesn't want a job that requires a PhD. He is only doing it bc he should be done by now and doesn't have a job lined up or anything. But it's not my place to go to my advisor and say I don't think he should stay. But I would seriously reconsider staying here if this kid would be in my lab for at least 4 more years. I just don't know if I could take that.

What am I supposed to do?! Argh!