Adelaide9216

Wow , I am so sorry this happened to you!

I will wait, I have failed my masters thesis so I am focusing on editing and resubmitting for the next weeks

I think I can pass my thesis.

I want to apologize for my comment on the previous page. I absolutely did not mean to offend anyone. I do not express myself well.

Congrats everyone !!!

I applied but didn’t get selected. I was ranked 6th and they gave 4 scholarships. I am not eligible anyways because of Vanier.

You re absolutely right.

That is not at all what I meant to say. You’re totally misunderstanding me here. I never said that PhD is the only way to be successful. You’re putting words in my mouth and assuming stuff. PS: FYI, I come from a family where my mom, with no job, raised a huge family on her own. No one in my family has a university degree. I grew up in poverty. I don’t come from a privileged background. But I am aware that I am privileged now and when I say the award is merit based, it’s just me repeating what is said about those awards, I never said that I agree with the system or that I agree with the word merit. I am just explaining how this system works for people who want academic careers. I am just saying how the game works. I never said I agree with that game. It is true that a lot of people can’t apply for multiple and valid reasons. I am saying this for the people who can apply, but don’t probably because they don’t know they could apply. A lot of people underestimate their chances of being able to get these awards (myself included). I also agree that having a support system makes a huge difference and that not everyone has that.

Even if they have good resources, these people should still apply. Getting those scholarships look good on a CV if they want a career in academia. These scholarships are merit-based, not need-based. Getting them also shows communication skills and ability to explain your research in simple terms and to a wider audience, which is key in academia. I personally believe that people should always apply to any scholarship they are eligible for, regardless of having financial resources/means to survive through grad school. Even the small scholarships create a "pipeline" to win the bigger and most prestigious ones. This is really important in grad school and after grad school.

Hello, your best tools to conduct a Qualitative Data Analysis (thematic analysis)? Books or articles. I have a few resources but unfortunately, they weren't helpful in my case.

This is hard.

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Thank you everyone for your responses. Sorry for the lack of responses, I am working on the edits since yesterday. I have made a table of all the changes I need to make and I will address all of them, including where she mentioned "this part is good, but could have been better" I want her to see that I went above and beyond...

I received the official letter from my university saying that if I fail my thesis again, I will be expelled. My emotions are literally a roller coster right now. I still work on my thesis, but there are moments where I feel like "what if I don't make it? what if pursuing a PhD wasn't meant to happen? What am I going to say to all the people who know about my PhD acceptance and Vanier scholarship?". And there are other moments where I feel like in 10 years, I'll be laughing over this with my (future) students. I am going to do everything I can to pass. I cancelled all my extracurricular activities for the next month. But it doesn't feel comfortable right now to be in my shoes, I feel so much pressure. I don't want everything I have worked so hard to be taken away from me. I try to put that pressure and negative thoughts into a box and not let them paralyze me. I also try to remember that I am a fighter and have always been. I know I belong in academia. I know I want to do a PhD. I know I've got what it takes. I know I am not at fault for what happened. I know this is not reflective of my worth. I know why this happened, how easily avoidable it actually was and who's to blame, but I cannot throw a pity party right now, it's useless. I need to take action and move forward.

Same here

I don’t have the same advisor for my PhD.

Thanks!!!

My department had even nominated me for a convocation award this graduation season. Oh well.. ?

I asked my supervisor if another professor in the département could also take a look on my thesis before sending it off to examination. She agreed. But between you and me, I think she loves me so much that she doesn’t see clear when it comes to my work. I have a feeling that she overestimated my ability to do this, hence why I received little guidance despite me asking for feedback.

Vanier I learned on April 1st. I don’t have any news for SSHRC. Thanks but I failed my masters thesis (learned the news yesterday). I have a month to resubmit. otherwise bye bye Vanier and PhD in September

Yes I declined SSHRC immediately after learning I got Vanier. We did get that email.

I'm also happy that I am self-confident enough that I don't see this failure as a failure of who I am in terms of intelligence and ability. I know this is also a matter of the fact that I have received very little guidance on the part of my supervisor throughout my master's degree. This is the second time that something backfires in my master's degree, and both times, she never warned me, prepared me or anticipated it. But I won't tell her that because I know she loves me a lot, and probably feels very guilty already. I'm sure that out of all of her students, she surely did not expect me to fail. She knows me, my work ethic, and the fact that I am a hard and dedicated student. But my family was very upset when they learned I had failed because I spent the last year complaining to them about how I felt like I did not have as much feedback as I wanted to. I almost had to defend her. I had to clarify with my family that my supervisor does not have bad intentions towards me. She definetly wants me to succeed. But I think she was overly confident in my ability to do this and did not offer me enough guidance.

Thanks. My supervisor believes the thesis examiner was too severe. Unfortunately, she will be evaluating the second version of my thesis. This is totally unexpected. Just to give you an idea, my department had nominated me for a convocation award this term...However, I know my thesis was not perfect. But there are a lot of changes I will make just to "make her happy" her at this point since she has the final word. So I made a chart with all of the comments she made on my work (at least, the comments appear somewhat easy to apply and are clear and precise) and I will address each comment one by one. If she fails me after this, I bring her to the Dean. I also made myself a calendar of each section that I need to rectify week by week until August. I also contacted my prospective university for doctoral students to have clarification about the moment I need to show that I passed my thesis. They say I need to submit my final transcript by the end of August, and a proof of my master's degree by the end of December. I can still save my case but I asked for clarification about those deadlines.

I am going to PM you now.

Just learned the news today. I am still in shock. I did not expect to fail, even if I knew my thesis was not perfect. I was expecting a pass with revisions. Even my supervisor was not worried for me (she told me so yesterday). I just need emotional support right now. I need not to let my emotions get to me. I have won a major scholarship for my doctoral studies starting in September, so I need to resubmit by August. Otherwise, I am screwed. If I fail a second time, I won't graduate which means that my admission and scholarship offers will be revoked from me.