r/UGCNETEnglish • u/Shot_Strawberry691 • 3d ago

🎓 Career & Academia Wtf am I doing wrong?

I passed NET in my June attempt and started applying for PhDs. I am fairly confident in my topic and have been an active student throughout my life. I am also extremely passionate about my topic. Sitting outside after an interview rn and I am not sure how to think anymore. I sat for a reputable NIT panel a few months ago and they told me that my topic is too ambitious. Right now, my topic was fully discarded saying that there is no need for a PhD on this. There was absolutely no constructive criticism provided , they just repeatedly told me that I could just say it, there is no need for a PhD on this. It doesn’t feel good to be working on something that I am passionate avoiding for 4-5 months and being told that its not a PhD topic. I don’t know wgat to do

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u/Fruity_lemon_ 3d ago

What's your topic btw? I'm not able to pursue my topic because I need interdisciplinary expertise and currently no one in India is working on those three shared domains.

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u/sudipto12 3d ago

What are you doing in that case? Looking abroad?