Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi I am in my final year of university I am studying health and care of children and young people undergrad and I am about to start working on my dissertation. My topic is children's mental health during the pandemic and lockdown. I have just had a meeting online with my supervisor Ben and he is impressed with the research I have done so far and is happy for me to start the first chapter. Has anyone else been in my shoes if so any advice would greatly be appreciated. I will say as an adult with autism my university is super supportive and the help they are providing me is amazing even the lecturers understand my needs and are happy to spend a bit of time with me if needed if I have been struggling with a lecture. Basically, if anyone has ever been to university and has made it to their final year any advice would be amazing thank you.
I got hyper focused on one area in my disertation that my advisor wasn't keen on. (Lax pairs and the inverse scatering problem) Consequently I kept chasing that area and he kept trying to redirect me in to other topics and I kind of started ignoring him. It was poor behavior from both of us in hind sight and it cost me marks. Inflexability on my part and his plus bad comunication. lol in retrospect he was probably autistic too.