Hmm, that's interesting. I was always puzzled when my Dad would suggest that the reason my PhD is taking so long is that we didn't do some thing that the advis

Hmm, that's interesting. I was always puzzled when my Dad would suggest that the reason my PhD is taking so long is that we didn't do some thing that the advisor is maybe expecting in the way of guanxi. It was preposterous of course but maybe in this context it made sense to him.