I was in the exact same situation as this except in music, and I just submitted. The initial area of study I proposed and was accepted on suddenly got re-directed and I felt like I had no control. A new advisor came on board; it was all a bit of a nightmare for a while. The thing is, my new topic (which I felt came from the advisors)was smaller and less adventurous but still of interest of me, so I was lucky at least where you seem to be being cheated out of an area you're interested in, which really sucks after your hard work (I was crying in the professor's office - I know the way theses can suck).
The only thing is, maybe you'll find some aspect of this that seems uninteresting now that will open up a new area to you? Or maybe some of the methodologies and whatnot will come in useful if you do get to do the topic you chose initially in further studies, doctoral or conference papers or whatever they might be? That's mostly what I got out of the clusterfuck that was my initial nightmare experience.
I hope they treat you nicely and you get this sorted to as much your level of satisfaction as possible. You clearly know so much about the topic, and it can be so frustrating when someone is seeing your passionate work in cold scientific terms and reducing it to structural plans and missing its essence. Sometimes I've found it's worse when you care passionately about a subject. But hopefully you will come across an area of interest withing the new parameters of your proprosal, or can manipulate the thesis to touch upon some of your original concerns. Best of luck with it!
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I know how that goes - keep on keeping on and good luck!
Date: 2008-05-31 03:02 am (UTC)I was in the exact same situation as this except in music, and I just submitted. The initial area of study I proposed and was accepted on suddenly got re-directed and I felt like I had no control. A new advisor came on board; it was all a bit of a nightmare for a while. The thing is, my new topic (which I felt came from the advisors)was smaller and less adventurous but still of interest of me, so I was lucky at least where you seem to be being cheated out of an area you're interested in, which really sucks after your hard work (I was crying in the professor's office - I know the way theses can suck).
The only thing is, maybe you'll find some aspect of this that seems uninteresting now that will open up a new area to you? Or maybe some of the methodologies and whatnot will come in useful if you do get to do the topic you chose initially in further studies, doctoral or conference papers or whatever they might be? That's mostly what I got out of the clusterfuck that was my initial nightmare experience.
I hope they treat you nicely and you get this sorted to as much your level of satisfaction as possible. You clearly know so much about the topic, and it can be so frustrating when someone is seeing your passionate work in cold scientific terms and reducing it to structural plans and missing its essence. Sometimes I've found it's worse when you care passionately about a subject. But hopefully you will come across an area of interest withing the new parameters of your proprosal, or can manipulate the thesis to touch upon some of your original concerns. Best of luck with it!
-Alfrenne.