totally agreed! things can change even from one year to another with the same advisor. for instance, i'm not the same advisor to my students that i was last yea

totally agreed! things can change even from one year to another with the same advisor. for instance, i'm not the same advisor to my students that i was last year, or the year before that, or the year before that. (i've only been at this for 4 years, and each year is incredibly different from the prior one.) circumstances change, resources change, and constraints change.