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So I have just arrived in Leeds a few days ago (seems to be a very nice city). I go to the University to check out the atmosphere. The day before, I sent an email to my supervisor at the university, but no response yet. So I go to the student service and says that Prof. XXX is my supervisor, and I'll just take a look around the facility. The desk clerk starts to pale, asks me to wait, and storms out of the room.
I'm thinking "what on earth is going on?"
Turns out that the professor from whom I have a letter of invitation has taken up a position in London instead.
So basically he left without notifying me. And now I'm stuck in Leeds without a supervisor for my Ph.D. project. Great.
And since I was invited as a visiting scholar (not as a research student), no registration of me has been done. I'm a Ph.D.-fellow and I am not a Ph.D.-fellow at the same time it seems. I suppose I should see the irony in it. Afterall my project is about a certain kind of art which is inbetween categories, or rather is opposite things at the same time. But somehow I'm not laughing.
The upside is that it's my university in Denmark who is paying the rent for the apartment here in Leeds.
The downside is that I don't want to spend time away from my wife and kid if all I have to do is sit and write. I can do that at home just as easily.
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