PASSED MY MASTERS DISSERTATION shocked and almost weepy

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In fucking shock, so relieved and happy but also feel I may be sick from the raw cortisol burst from opening the email with the grade

I posted here a few times in complete despair, paralysed by low confidence, thinking it was all impossible, but somehow it was graded at 65%. MN helped me through some extremely panicky moments and cheered me on!

Read the extensive cutting feedback which says basically it was a garbled shitshow as it was wandering, rambled all over the place, I don't get to the main question until too late BUT showed enough reading had been done, and contained interesting original angles.

At the very start of this masters I had dreams of someday doing a PhD. Is it sensible to put that idea to bed, seeing as I was crap at organising my ideas properly on paper? Or do you think that's a skill that can be learned somehow?

My head is swirling with a million things but overall so relieved and thrilled to have bloody passed! It's only Tuesday but kind of want to celebrate with a few glasses of champagne later!

Congratulations!!!

Congratulations! I got through my BSc thanks to support here, and will always be grateful. Well done!

Yay!

Congratulations! 🥳 What an achievement!

Well done x

Well done! I definitely think you should have some fizz to celebrate

Well done

Congratulations! Don't worry about the PhD yet. Just enjoy the new letters after your name.

Congratulations!!!! You should be so proud! I start my dissertation in September and am shitting it and reading how happy you are now you've passed is really reassuring. Well done

Congratulations

Well done

woo hoo! well done that woman!!

Nice to see good news OP, very well done to you!

Whether you go on to a do a PhD I think needs some consideration from you really. Perhaps talk with one of your tutors further about whether they recommend that path for you and what you could work on to get through it in a way that doesn't leave you as frazzled as this has. Unless you have a specialism in mind and a decent career plan it may not be worthwhile if it causes extreme anxiety such as what you describe. It's very costly, and hard graft so it needs to be worth your payoff if you see what I mean.

You point out that the comments on your dissertation were 'cutting' but presumably they were accurate and fair. As long as you really take on board what has been said and work on actioning the salient points I see no reason why you wouldn't improve over time when it comes to how to structure your critical thinking.

For now though I'd celebrate! Enjoy the relief and the break and see how you feel in a few weeks/months.

Thanks everyone! Still can't quite believe it!

MN is amazing for support through degrees

You point out that the comments on your dissertation were 'cutting' but presumably they were accurate and fair

Oh definitely, feedback was very fair and reasonable. I knew I'd messed up in that respect and worried I wouldn't pass because of that aspect. It just made me cringe to read them.

I'm a bit embarrassed by them but that is overpowered by the sheer relief of passing

Congratulations!
And yes - organising your ideas on paper can be learned, Write an extraordinarily detailed plan with everything you want to include. Change the order as you deem fit but overall set out as:

1. Introduction
2. Main discussion
3. Conclusion

If the plan is detailed enough it won't actually take too long to write in the end

Well done, OP!

Am schlepping through my thesis now...only 19,500 words to go 🤪

Well done OP. Enjoy the moment then have a break. There is time in the future to consider the idea of a PhD.

Yay! Well done! I remember that feeling of shock and relief so well. My MA killed any further ambition in me so good luck with anything further - you’re braver than me!

Cutting feedback and still 65%, that means it was bloody good! Well done!

Congratulations!! Remember feedback at masters is always a bit more critical because it’s a higher level (I don’t mean that in a patronising way - it’s what I kept telling myself!) and your grade shows it wasn’t just a pass but a really great piece of work! Celebrate your success then have a rest, then go for the PhD for sure!

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HUGE congratulations! What a great achievement! I think that feedback is what you pay for so you can use it to improve - imagine paying all that money and not getting anything that you could use to develop from! Sounds like you did yourself proud!

Well done ! all these items, not necessarily in this order.

Oh well done