Livre d'Or

Part of the reason everything went so wrong last year was that my Master's supervisor:

- was not at all interested in knowing any details of my personal life whatsoever, so she got a bunch of work emailed in at 5am but I did not feel comfortable disclosing that I was struggling or why
- did not set regular meetings, where I really benefit from once-a-week/fortnight regular checkins and clear goals to try to meet
- did not set clear expectations or goals - about four weeks before hand-in, I found out I was supposed to be getting a bunch of SEM data, and so the timetable I was anticipating was really not going to work

Whereas my current supervisor:
- is setting up regular meetings
- is actually giving positive feedback
- is setting clear short-term goals and discussing long-term (i.e. over the course of the three-month project) timetables
- was cool with me disclosing up-front that I wanted to get going early because I expected November to be a disaster zone, and to get at least one serious chest infection during the project

... etc, and astonishgly enough I am not yet having panic attacks over EVERY TIME I SEE HER. (Ditto my SURF supervisor, actually.) So. Yes. That's how I work best; might be worth talking to your supervisee about how she works best?