The “And Then There Were None” technique of graduating with a Ph.D. is to be deployed when you have the ultimate advisor problem.

You need to graduate and your advisor is not letting you. Talking to your advisor is like banging your head against a wall, so don’t waste energy doing that.

In fact, that could be your downfall, and we need to avoid that at all costs. Avoid becoming isolated and as a Ph.D. student, you have to work hard to make sure of that.

This is YOUR business and you have to take matters into your own hands. As I have emphasized in past posts, there are others you must focus on first: the rest of your committee members, the department administration, and members of your collaboration if your research group is part of a larger collaboration.

Read the blog post:

https://howtophd.org/2020/06/and-then-there-were-none-approach-of-graduating-with-a-phd.html

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