<p>I am a relatively new graduate student, a year into my program. However, my adviser has done the following so far: told me that my work was a waste of time, I am unfocused, I don't understand concepts, (when my adviser actually did like my paper) accused me of not writing it and then afterwards my adviser had a change of mind and said that it wasn't very good anyways...Every week I get a new list of things that I did wrong. I've been compared to other students in accordance with my ineptitude and made fun of my religion. Talked about the undergraduate students that I teach to her classroom of graduate students... My confidence level is quite low if one could imagine and for a while I thought it was just all in my head. But one of my colleagues indicated from what I relayed that this was not a normal situation. </p>
<p>I am seeking advice right now about this, but the Graduate department has told me that I am stuck in the situation that I am in because I can not withdraw without my major professor giving me a grad. My GPA as it stands right now is a 3.35. I am a TA and am in two courses at the present time. One course I'm sure to pass with flying colors. The other course...well let's just say that my adviser is running the show. If I am given an F, despite my other grades, my GPA will fall to a 2.64. The Graduate school says I will be ruined forever with that GPA with no hope of higher education ever again. I'm terrified and don't quite know what to do. </p>
<p>I need to know if what my Graduate school was telling me is true...</p>
<p>I'm not ready to go back to graduate school after this experience for a while. I'm a bit traumatized and what's worse, my adviser stated behaving more erratically since I received word that my research had potential. I'm feeling hopeless and trapped and don't know what to do about this. I can't survive here. My adviser is doing everything to out me, including talking behind my back to other professors within the department (an accidental slip up my adviser made during a previous conversation). </p>
<p>I just need to know if there is hope for me in the future with one failing grade that will throw my GPA completely off. I plan to contest the grades at the end if necessary because my work is twice the size of the other student's in class (I'm covering my backside because I know that I might have to fight this). But if I lose this battle, what do I do? Am I sunk because of a 2.64 GPA forever because I wanted to further my education at the wrong place? </p>
<p>(And I can't talk to my Graduate coordinator. My graduate coordinator has already corresponded with my adviser behind my back in which my adviser let me know. I don't know about the dean, but the situation is risky and I'm absolutely petrified). </p>
<p>Can anyone give me some sort of hope?</p>