This is a follow up question to a previous question I have asked about co advising : professor will agree to be my thesis advisor but only if I can find a co-advisor . After sitting in on this professors lab meetings I would like to work on two projects that he is getting off the ground in collaboration with another professors lab. How can I ask him in a way that gives him a graceful out even though he agreed to co-advise on my master's thesis? I would really like to work with him since I am really interested in his research, but I do not want to end up trapping either of us in an advising relationship that would be bad for both of us in the event he was just trying to be nice when he agreed to be co-advisor on my master's thesis.
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8Pretend he's a human being, and then ask him directly.– JeffECommented Nov 23, 2014 at 4:06
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I do not want to end up trapping either of us in an advising relationship that would be bad for both of us in the event he was just trying to be nice when he agreed to be co-advisor on my master's thesis.
Give him some credit and don't assume he would agree to a bad advising relationship just to be "nice."
Ask him directly. If he wants to say "no," there are any number of ways in which he can say it.
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3If he's made it to professor, you can be sure he knows how to say no, gracefully or otherwise. :) Commented Sep 2, 2015 at 14:11