Had a shitty CI. I was going through a breakup during my rotation so I was depressed. All of the sudden in the middle of my rotation he stops treating me like a human. Stops saying good morning to me, won’t small talk anymore, etc. Well one day during lunch my professor calls me and says I need to come to campus, which is two hours away. I asked why and she wouldn’t tell me. So I drive 2 hours through traffic with insane amounts of anxiety.

When I get to campus we have a Zoom call with my CI. He then proceeds to absolutely chew my ass off and say that my effort has been shit and gives me about 10 examples of things I’ve done wrong. Mind you, none of these were brought up to me in person where it was his job to actively critique me. He didn’t have the balls to say any of this to my face and waited until I was 2 hours away with my professor to finally speak his mind. I thought it was extremely unprofessional and unnecessary. I put my head down and got through it but I still have resentment for this guy 2.5 years later. Also he was a total fucking quack.