there's a guy who could volunteer to help me out with technical (i.e. laborious) work during the summer but it turns out that because of departamental policies that is not allowed...

what makes it worse, my supervisor told me last week i won't finish on time but there's still more than one year left of my phd. and just to add the cherry on the cake, another phd student has his own postdoc working on his project and every summer he gets at least 2 undergraduate students to do all the tedious work
