我也举个手,那年赶上飓风sandy,风来之前已经是宣传地沸沸扬扬,什么百年不遇啊,停水停电断网断粮啊,所以提前两天去超市买了两袋面包,几捆菜,两盒牛肉一瓶奶,还有一板巧克力,觉得撑个三天绰绰有余。sandy登陆的前一天下午,已经是妖风四起了,下了课回家,走到113街的时候发现了一条很长很长的队尾……还以为是什么店打折还是买一送三,再往前走了2个block发现居然是家门口那家菜市场+超市。 我!的!天! 当时我和舍友并没有停下回家的脚步,一边感慨一边说幸好我们提前备了粮。 直到我们走到了家门口,楼上的大叔正张罗着家里人从车上往下搬东西……有巨型桶装纯牛奶X3,超长法棍X5,各种装在塑料袋里的蔬菜、熟食、水果etc,以及,两个巨大的,长方体的,蓄电池?? 大叔看到我们愣在门口,非常友好地问我们有没有做好准备迎接sandy,我说yeah,买了点儿。大叔当时就冲我吼了起来,exo me?? 买了“点儿??” come on!这可是sandy!不是candy!you have to be fully prepared, at least for a week. 而且你还买生菜?到时候没有燃气给你做饭的!然后大叔就给我们描绘了sandy来袭之后的恐怖景象,黑云压城,狂风过境,房倒屋塌,内涝成灾……末了还非常担忧地说,快去吧,你看风越来越大了。hurry up! run ! run your heads off! 我和同学仿佛看了一场2012大电影,面面相觑了一会儿,觉得是不是我们把sandy想的太简单了,难道国内的飓风真的和大美利坚的没法比? 犹豫了一会我们决定相信大叔,于是顶风冒雨地去了超市之外排队……进去以后已经是这样了……
I am afraid that you do not understand your status. You belong to the university and you MUST inform your home address to us ASAP. You do not come to lab without leave for several weeks, and I am afraid that you may lose your present position, visa, and others.
In addition, JSPS wants to know what you are doing. I will have to tell JSPS that you do not work now, and then JSPS will stop your scholarship immediately. I will also have to tell the Chinese Embassy about your status.
我直接回了一封信给教授。
Do not threaten to me anymore! Firstly, I don’t care about the money from JSPS, you can do whatever you want. But I think they still did not know the reason why I refused to go to the lab and I will explain to them about power harassment and your inappropriate behavior to let a student who cannot reproduce results to graduate and waste the funding from JSPS and the Japanese government if you keep threatening to me.
Last time, you used the visa to threaten to me…this time… JSPS. Do you have any other new idea? I will be waiting for your new proposal. By the way, I am not law-ignorant. The reason why I did not contact to the dean or the president about this problem about the harassment is I do not want to waste my time in your lab or on anything about your lab.
I am still afraid that you do not understand your status. You can stay here in Tokyo because we accept you in our department and in our laboratory. This means that we are responsible for you. We need to know your present address. If you do not tell us, we will have to contact with the university office and also with JSPS, Chinese Embassy, etc. even with your parents. At that time, we will have to explain your status. We do not threaten you. We are serious. This is our responsibility.
我的回复如下:
I already told my address to the international liaison office, and you can send me anything you want.
As for my status, I do understand and my parents do so. If you want to report to the university and Chinese embassy, it is your choice, and I am considering to report my situation to the university about the unfair treatments and power harassments to international students.
As for the research, there should be some evaluation criterions. If the professor is not fair with all the students, then the comparison is meaningful!!! All the students in lab 2 knew that Dr. K (造假男) cannot provide the crude GC charts and I think I knew more details since I spent longer time with them. Also, I want to clarify one thing, you have no authority to prosecute me since I do not talk about these things on public, and can you please tell me how I injure their honours. If you think this is rumour and want to prosecute someone, please ask your staff instead of me.
Recently I do not want to talk with you and I will make a decision later. Probably I will choose temporary leave or discontinuing my studies. But you cannot fire me, I am a student belonging to this university and I have my authority to do so. What you can do is just to prolong my Ph.d. Please stop asking JSPS to call me, if you want to stop, it is your choice!!! Do not use the Ph.d. and money to threaten to any student.
One more important thing you should understand is “You have no authority to cancel my visa and even if I quit here, I can get special activity visa to stay in Japan for several months to look for a position, please remember “.
1. I accepted you in my lab although your score was not very good. You could not come to Tokyo if I did not accept you.
2. I strongly supported you to publish papers, which might not be published in my group.
3. I allotted an invited paper to you to increase the number of your publication.
4. I asked M and Y to allow you to become the first author of the JACS paper. The fact is that the major parts of the paper depended on M, Y and myself. 这句是我最无法接受的,如果没有他们的阻拦,其实这篇文章可以早早就发表。
5. I paid you much money to support you in Tokyo from my own budget.
6. I wrote extremely strong recommendation letters to JSPS to get the scholarship.
7. I also wrote an extremely strong recommendation letter to get the Chinese award.
8. I might have supported you more than other students.
Do you think these are UNFAIR?
If you say something, please reply to my question first.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
我也给教授回复了很长的邮件。
I will reply your questions as below:
1. I appreciated you gave me the chance to study here. Although I was not good as you expected, I still had several offers from several countries. The reason why I gave up other offers with high scholarships and entered your group was because you were famous and I wanted to learn something from you.
2. If the paper is not good, I do not think you would agree to publish. Most of the papers you published were very old topics and I do think I made some contribution to expand the new area in your group. I remembered when I found something new, you tried to deny. Before I finished the project about the cooperative catalysis, you told me the level of the paper is just synlett or OL, can you remember?
The time I spent and the experiments I did during the first two years are much more than other graduate students, which can be proved by Dr. Y and M. Especially the first year, almost everyday from 7.30 am to 1.30 am. Even I spent all the holiday in the lab. Therefore, I deserved the paper.
3. I think that paper published on Can. j. chem was able to publish on a little higher journal if you did not use it to celebrate Prof. Chan’s birthday. More funny thing is the paper was not included in the invited volume. 教授因为要庆祝自己一个朋友生日,将我的第二篇文章投到了一个很差的期刊。
4. I found the cooperative catalysis by myself and at the beginning all of you including Dr. M said that the quinone is just an oxidant and it is not promising at all. But I did not give up and I did many control experiments to convince all of you. That was my third paper, and I think for a master student in this lab, being a first author in this situation is normal. I did all the things by myself, and for some other students, they published the same or less amount of papers with many students. 实验室有几个日本学生,他们不需要做什么,文章就给他们署名。
5. About the financial support, I would like to say thank you. But if you did not provide any support in Ph.d, I would not continue Ph.d here. 当时我是要直接去美国读博的,被他拦了下来。
6. For JSPS, maybe the recommendation letter is very important, but you wrote recommendation letters for all the students from this lab. The result was only a few students can get the JSPS, so I do not think it is the crucial point. The difference between my first and second application is the proposal and the publication list.
7. Actually the Chinese award needs an electronic version of the recommendation letter, so I saw the content which was the abstract of the JACS paper. 教授写的推荐信我后来也看过,完全是黏贴了论文的摘要,是一封极其不负责任的推荐信,而且我第一年申请一个奖失败,原因是教授错过了递交推荐信的时间。
8. I hope the explanation is able to satisfy you. If so, please answer the evaluation criterions about Ph.d.
最后我给教授加法了一封信如下:
I do understand the current situation, and please answer my previous email firstly about how you can allow Mr. K who cannot reproduce his results to graduate.
As a student, my basic duties are to perfect my research, I have results and I did not fabricate any thing, but now there are some obstacles which make me feel that my current research are completely meaningless. As a famous professor, you do have duties to teach your students and yourself how to behave, especially about the altitudes on the research. You do not have to threaten to me, if the current situation cannot be changed, I will try to contact the dean or the president, and I will choose to take a long long break or directly quit from the next April. If you really want to tell the Chinese Embassy, it is fine with me, and I will ask them and the university to investigate the whole thing. About the JSPS, I will stop by myself and my parents can support me.