I was reading some of the responses to the issue of graduate students being abused. I have been in my program for over 3 years and will graduate within the next year. Yet, I have never had a real conversation with my advisor about my research. I have received no mentoring at all and on top of it have been psychologically abused at times. For example, my name as co-author has been conveniently left off of grants that I have brought to the attention of and partially written for my adviser. I also have been verbally assaulted by some members of the faculty. I think the problem with some advisors is that they have never done anything but be in 'school' there entire life. And they feel they have earned the right to use graduate students as their psychological punching bags. I think that universities should require faculty to double as night janitors, that way professors could get a taste of the real world.
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