12 GIFs from The Office That Perfectly Describe Your Research Supervision Meeting

1. Explaining a thought you have but the words don’t the right way come out.

2. … especially after one of those weeks that have gone by more like this.

3. Agreeing to something then immediately realising that it was probably a bad idea.

(but then following through anyway because mama didn’t raise no disappointment).

4. Pitching a last minute idea that you came up with the night before your scheduled meeting.

5. Responding to jokes… wait, am I supposed to be funny back?

6. When your supervisor makes a comment that’s just so. Bloody. Insightful.

7. When you’re really not sure whether your idea is a) really, really dumb, or b) actually something worth saying…

8. … when you say it anyway…

9. … and when you are reassured that it wasn’t dumb at all.

10. Meetings scheduled at or before 9am.

11. Tuning out for a millisecond, and then realising that you now have absolutely 0 idea what your supervisor is talking about.

Oops.

12. And last but not least, the last 10 minutes of the meeting.

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