Hey Historians!

So here's the deal. I am currently a Masters student who has been working on his thesis for well over a year. Some of that is my fault, and some of it is my adviser's fault. I take total responsibility for being a little lazy with my work, but I was a little discouraged... not that it's an excuse or anything, but I am at that point again.

So I had presented my topic, a proposal and an entire thesis to my adviser. I had done this last April, and now I am still editing it, because my adviser either thinks I need to put more stuff in there, which she should have just told me about on the first round of edits, or she is correcting and questioning things she told me to specifically add, word for word.

I am super frustrated at this point. I am at my 5th round of edits, for a Masters thesis. I know it's not uncommon to have edits, but this is becoming ridiculous. She already took 2 months to edit it, and that's only because I kept emailing her.

I knwo I haven't posted anything about my actual thesis, and maybe I am just venting a little bit, but I don't know what else to do, other than the edits. I have done all of them, every single time, which usually required more research and have added an additional 40 pages since the beginning of the process. She has given me until the 22nd of June, otherwise she will be going on a fellows and then I am stuck!

What do I do? Do I ask for a new adviser? Do I ask to try and defend my paper in an open forum? And option one of my class mates had gotten. I don't want to give up because I am already in debt for this degree, but it just seems so hopeless. I am also done with most of her edits for this round as well... So I am trying.