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I am obviously not using my real name or identity for evident reasons. I haven't contacted my advisor for the last couple of months and communication was silent. Now we barely talk and any sort of interaction with him makes it seem like our previous collaboration was a failed attempt.

This can be a dumb question, but I do not know how else to express this and I feel pressured to ask this. If a advisor-advisee relationship fails, should I look for a different advisor? Has anyone been in a similar situation. I am still interested in the subject/area that advisor works in and, of course, there are some things which I need to change- I have to be more committed in the sense that I follow through with every project I start (Usually I started to recognize a pattern where these sorts of collaborations end sourly for me...). I'm still an undergraduate, so I hope I have some time.

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    If you're still an undergrad, what do you mean by your "advisor"?2011-09-21
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    @user3296: The terminology varies in different parts of the world. In these parts you are an undergrad until you have written something often described as an M.Sc. thesis (and completed the other degree requirements), and you have an advisor (doesn't have to be a professor, could be a lecturer or a senior assistant) overseeing that work. Admittedly it sounds like in OP's case the advisor/student collaboration is more serious than what it would be here, but... the globe is a big place.2011-09-21
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    Right, but it kind of sounded to me like OP did a reading course or something, didn't come up with results, and has overblown the significance of this, which is why I was asking for clarification.2011-09-21
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    By advisor I mean...someone who gave me advice as I was learning a subject and working on some interesting problems. Not like a thesis advisor.2011-09-22

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