ABSTRACT
The advisor is the most important person in the scholastic life of the student during TID work. Moreover, university publications repeatedly stress that much of the initiative for finding a research advisor must come from the student. One reason is that faculty members are reluctant to be seen as "selling" students on their specific interests or their particular ideological or research agenda. Another reason is that choosing an advisor tends to be tightly linked to choosing a topic for investigation. That relationship is noted in this chapter, but the details of topic selection are elaborated in Chapter 3.
