As a senior graduate student, you might face a situation where your advisor is not on the same page as you about graduation. The recommended approach, in this case, would be to tackle the problem step by step, and not all at once.
It may very well be that the last person to get on the same page is your advisor. In this case, please know that yours isn’t the first or the last professor to be a pain in the ass when it comes to graduating. It is a well-known phenomenon. If this is your biggest hurdle, you are not alone.
In fact, that is the best advice I can give.
Internalize that you are not alone and there are other people in this world who can help and influence your situation, directly and indirectly.
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Instead of wasting time arguing with or getting stressed out by your advisor, focus on getting EVERYONE ELSE on the same page first.
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