No new hires no new students
You can give advice if you want but things feel so depressing in my department now.
I did my MA in a cohort of 12 and there was so many people and things to do.
Now since my PhD started in 2024, my department has had 3 professors quit for various reasons and the university refuses to hire for those positions.
And last year and this year they only accepted one new PhD student each so there's not many new people for me to work with and hangout with.
It just feels so depressing. My advisor now has to take on two extra jobs with no additional pay and she keeps skimping on helping me with my comps proposal and cancelling meetings. Like I'm so frustrated and now I feel like I'm not getting the help I need.... Ugh 😩
Plus one of the profs who quit taught a required quant methods class that I got a B+ in that made me so upset and now since she's gone it's suddenly not required anymore and I'm like ok then why do I have this shit grade on my transcript 🤬
Like I already knew I was doing this PhD for funsies because no jobs in academia and I'll probably end up back in my field I was working in or work in administration maybe but idk it's just hard to justify the suffering of a PhD when it feels like nobody works in my department anymore.