“Research Is So Humbling”: Student Shows Strict Mentor’s Savage Comments, SA Can’t Deal

• A university student took to her TikTok account to show people online how her supervisor reacted to her work
• The comments he made were comical and did not seem as though it was coming from a professional but rather a savage friend
• Members of the online community laughed at the responses and said the student would thank her strict mentor in the future

A young student, most likely doing her postgraduate studies, showed online users how her no-nonsense supervisor comically reacted to her electronic research paper.

Using the handle @gugulethu_mn1 on TikTok, the woman shared a series of screenshots showing what someone named Gregory had to say about the work she submitted.

In one of the savage comments, Gregory told @gugulethu_mn1:

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"Doesn't make sense. There is too little information given here to even begin to formulate what you are trying to say."

The student wrote in her post's caption:

"Research is so humbling."

Take a look at some of the other comments in the pictures below:

Mentor's response has Mzansi laughing

Thousands of social media users took to the viral video's comment section to share similar experiences with their strict lecturers and university supervisors. Others saw nothing wrong with Gregory's response.

Here is what people had to say:

@kabous8585 said to the student:

"You’ll thank him later in your career."

@nthabs_m4 shared with the public:

"I had supervisor comments worse than these in 2022. I didn’t get a single positive comment. Backlash all the way."

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@dr_awelani laughed and said:

"Eish, I am this type of supervisor. There is nothing wrong here! I swear, your final document will be worth all this strictness, baby."

Student shares professor's savage response to email

In a similar article, Briefly News reported about a University of the Free State student who shared on TikTok the savage response her lecturer sent her.

Siphokazi Nxumalo, who uses the handle @c_phoh on TikTok, shared a post on the popular social media platform showing her online interaction with the educator. In the email, Siphokazi greets the professor and states that the last few questions on a test puzzled her.

However, the man did not take any excuses and responded with sass.

Source: Briefly News