I am a new PhD student. It is the time of Mid-term. My adviser become very mean to me,which is very different from the beginning. I also heard about that the school usually gave us a hard mid-term exam (in last year, the avg is 50% for some courses). Is the school's strategy? Is this called stress test to drive out the people who have no strong motivation in PhD study? Do your school have such things?
Stress tested by the school
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You don't get an adviser before the 2nd or 3rd year. FAKE.
Oh, absolutely. Because it's unheard of that different schools might have different rules.
GTFO.I think OP should tell us his university so that someone can say if that university has that rule. Otherwise, if we get no proof then it is fake.
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Ex-U Chicago person here. After first year, I had a faculty member who it was well understood to be my adviser. People even referred to him as my adviser and would then sometimes correct themselves.
Also, at some schools there might be one faculty member taking on all/all-but-one students in a given year. In that case, you would also know your adviser.
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Yeah, whether formally or informally you can definitely start kissing one ass at any time, they might even show some love and start talking research with you in the first or second year, so there could be some implicit advisor relationship pretty early, especially if you started in a Masters there first, which doesn't sound like the case here.
My guess - first year ASU finance student and using the term advisor outside the intended context, probably her assigned RA/TA prof. But that would make the 'douche' micro prof Ed S (not Ed P) who is actually a really nice guy.
OP, the only good advice you'll get here - for the love of God don't post your school now.