the themes are made up bullsh-t. none of them truly makes sense and are back engineered to fit the narrative the session chair wants. its a sham and there is no real logic to it.
the biggest factor is always how your supervisor places you coming into the meeting. the max you will move then is +1 or -1 category. this is chosen by group of supervisors based on “what they are hearing” there is instant group bias once someone picks a name suddenly there is silent politics and ganging up to support eachother for each of these discussions for the “edge” cases. those who can move down a category and those who could move up. its messed up and truly luck based, never blame yourself. just find another place that respects humans.
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a supervisor who regrets every second of that dreadful soul su-king meeting where