I want to quit my research position but I'm not sure if I should

[summerlennox]

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Hi everyone, I need help with this decision. I currently have a public health research position that hasn't produced much result. I've started a new project every semester (my mentor's idea), and recently this spring, I started my own research project where I got to pick the topic and how I want to go about it and everything.

But the thing is I feel like he doesn't like me. I don't enjoy going to research, and there was this one thing he said to me that pretty much confirmed that he doesn't like me, or I might be exaggerating lol. He also asked me to do a favor for him involving a girl who used to be my friend. I helped her get a research position with him (while we were friends), but we fell out weeks prior. He kinda got dragged into the drama because she wasn't trying to cooperate with me in a mature way, and the whole thing blew up in my face even though it was a simple favor, smh.

I was supposed to work on my project this summer, but I told him I wasn't able to balance it with studying for the MCAT and filling out my applications. So then I haven't heard from him all summer except to turn in my letter. I recently emailed him last Monday, but I haven't gotten a response.

This whole thing is just discouraging and I really don't want to work with him anymore, especially since I'm not getting paid, and I haven't seen any research results from when I started in February 2019. Should I resign?? The problem is I put this on my primaries and I said how I was expecting results by the end of August --> That was the plan, but he hasn't responded to my email and I'm not sure on how to proceed on my own.

I already have 400 research hours from a summer REU program, so hours are not a problem. Should I resign?? Can I just put in my secondaries that my research came to an inconclusive end or say that during interviews? Honestly, if it wasn't in my primaries, I would've quit. Will it reflect bad on me if I do quit?


Tl;DR I have a research position that I want to quit but I put in my primaries that I expect results by the end of August, will this look bad to adcoms that I quit? I'm just not enjoying it anymore and getting nothing from it. I already have 400 hours from a summer REU

 

[EpilepticRat]

Don't use his letter if you don't think it'll be strong. Based on how you describe your relationship it seems to me that it wouldn't be.

Also, adcoms will understand that covid has changed a lot of people's schedules, which just goes to show how little they care about projected hours.

Lastly, never stay in a place that makes you miserable. Find something better and leave

 

[summerlennox]

Don't use his letter if you don't think it'll be strong. Based on how you describe your relationship it seems to me that it wouldn't be.

Also, adcoms will understand that covid has changed a lot of people's schedules, which just goes to show how little they care about projected hours.

Lastly, never stay in a place that makes you miserable. Find something better and leave

I got a committee letter, should I tell my pre-med advisor to remove it?

 

[EpilepticRat]

I got a committee letter, should I tell my pre-med advisor to remove it?

Use your best judgement about the letter - if you feel like it'd be weak, then you should exclude it. If the committee letter has already been written and then sent it's doubtful that you'll have the option to remove it at this point.

 

[summerlennox]

Use your best judgement about the letter - if you feel like it'd be weak, then you should exclude it. If the committee letter has already been written and then sent it's doubtful that you'll have the option to remove it at this point.

they're still writing it, it hasn't been sent to amcas yet