> If you no longer believe what you proposed is a useful thing to do... send an e-mail. This may be easier to resolve than you think. eh... I know of one simil

> If you no longer believe what you proposed is a useful thing to do... send an e-mail. This may be easier to resolve than you think. eh... I know of one similar instance (student had found that what they were looking for has been proven false by another team) - the advisor basically said "okay, we're stopping the phd there". Two years to the drain.