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I'm glad I spoke with my supervisor and explained to her the pressure I feel daily ever since I learned I failed. She is going to give me feedback on what I have written so far by Tuesday. My anxiety level went down today. I ate ice cream to congratulate me for my good work. I'm a fighter. I'll make it, one day at a time.

Yes, I have another professor who is going to read my thesis. Thanks!

She has told me that she does not agree 100% with the evaluation made by the external examiner. She thinks the examiner was too severe. I told her that my family and some of my friends even think that this examiner purposefully want to fail me out of jealousy or something (I'm well-known in my field of study where I live, so the examiner must know who I am according to my friends and family). But I don't know if she purposefully wants to fail me, I tend to give the benefit of the doubt to people most of the time. My supervisor also told me that she has a lot of empathy for the situation I am in (may lose Vanier and doctoral admission). Either way, my supervisor thinks that there are very few chances that I fail again if I apply everything she mentioned in her comments (which I plan on doing). She told me that if that examiner fails me again, I can report it to the Dean. Also, the examiner took one extra month to correct my thesis when the deadline was within 4 weeks. That gives me one month less in terms of time to correct my thesis...

My thesis advisor apologized to me today. She said I should not have failed and she entirely understands the pressure I am feeling right now.

I am not in the same field as you, but I also failed my master's thesis. I am working on resubmitting. Hang in there, we can do it! xx

One step at the time.

*hugs*

I feel like crying. Too much pressure.

According to my university's policy, I cannot speak to her (potential conflict of interest) which sucks. The only thing I have noticed while looking at the theses she supervised is that the theory framework chapters are relatively short while mine is 10 pages... I will take a look at those again. Thanks!

Help! One of the comments from my external examiner on my master's thesis was that although my chapter on the theoretical frameworks I have used is great, I don't stress enough how those frameworks are going to be useful to my analysis. I have been looking online for resources on how to do this, and I can't find anything. Any resources (articles, books) that is easy to understand and practical to help me out? Thanks!

Wow, we just got asked by university to provide a picture and description of research project. So much pressure.

Wow, Vanier public announcement is next week. I thought it'd be later in the summer. Everyone is going to congratulate me and I don't even know if I am actually going to be a PhD student next September.

Vanier public announcement on May 16.

There's a free colloquium happening this week that is directly related to my PhD research subject. My friend organized it. There will be elected officials, and other very important people for my research project. It's a huge event. I have taken days off from work to attend. But I am hesitating to attend because it won't be useful to attend an event for my PhD studies if I can't pass my master's thesis. So I am thinking of taking those days off to work on my thesis instead. Plus, there will be a lot of people that I know at this event and I don't necessarily want everyone to ask me about how my thesis evaluation went.

I am sorry:(

Good advice! Thanks!

I work on this everyday. Yesterday was the first day I took a day off ever since I learned I have failed. It's really hard emotionally, I feel anxious very often, but at least, I'm into action mode. Thanks everyone and I really appreciate those of you who PM'd me to check on me. It means a lot to me. I emailed my department and they said they will do everything to make sure I pass (even if I don't exactly know what that means). Everyone is confident that I can succeed (family, friends, colleagues, supervisor, department) but I am still doubtful due to what happened. I'm just scared of that reviewer. Even the best parts I have done in my thesis (according to her) did not get a great mark. She is very severe and has high expectations...I don't think she wants to fail me, and I always believed she had good faith. But she does have very high expectations, and I was told that she is expecting stuff that are not required for a master's thesis (but that I still will do due to the fact that she will evaluate the second version of my thesis). If I fail again, even if I'd bring it to the Dean, I'd still lose Vanier and my PhD admission. So I have decided that ff I fail again, I think it'll just mean that doctoral studies weren't meant for me and that my road is elsewhere, which I am ready to accept. I have a lot of willpower and drive, but in the end, life has the last word. I did everything I could to pass, I don't think I am to blame for what happened. There are a lot of external factors to this situation that were against me. Sometimes, it just isn't meant to happen. I will do everything to pass, but I'm ready to accept failure and to leave academia if this isn't for me.

Hello, I will be the sole reader. But I have used member-checking and an advisory committee for rigor in my research. What are your sources? Thanks!

Been working on my thesis all day today. Will do tomorrow as well.

Seeing how far previous Vanier scholars have gone make me very anxious. I want to go far as well and I know that having Vanier would help me. But now, I may lose the scholarship if I don't pass my master's thesis. FML

I got Vanier

I went to take a coffee with a friend of mine. And the people I have told about my thesis failure regularly check on me, to make sure I am okay. My siblings as well. I'm lucky to be this well-surrounded.

I got SSHRC Doctoral, but got only a score of 12. something on 20. But I have to decline it anyways, so someone on the waitlist is going to have that scholarship hopefully.

Apparently, there is no waitlist for this award... FRQSC appears to be extremely hard to get. I don't understand their system.

We got an email for pictures !