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Moreover, departments have different expectations about how early students must start looking for thesis advisers.
The process, one whose success often depends on timing, puts pressure on students to have a definitive plan about their thesis as early as possible, so that they can begin pursuing potential thesis advisers.
Students who are not sure they want to write a thesis, for example, may not put as much energy into the process of finding advisers—which can hurt them in the event that they eventually choose to write one.
“I would’ve liked to have a thesis adviser one year prior to my due date,” Wootten says. “I would have had better help in how to approach my research and saved a lot of time.?...
In departments with low faculty-student ratios—where a particular handful of professors may be in high demand as thesis advisers—the process can be competitive and stressful.