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Yes, its hard to find that balance. I'm an anxious person by nature and I'm a perfectionist and my biggest fear is doing my entire thesis and getting it entirely destroyed by the external examiner. The thing is that my current supervisor always says that everything I do is perfect, she NEVER criticizes me which is a double-edge sword in my opinion. If I don't succeed, I will have to cancel my admission to PhD for Fall 2019 + all the scholarships I have applied to (even if I do get them, I'd have to cancel them because they can't get postponed to another year), etc. I feel a lot of pressure to finish my thesis, especially since my uni told me that I need to finish in April in order for me to graduate on time. If I finish during the summer, I'll graduate too late and won't be able to enter the PhD program next Fall

I think if I was not afraid, I would just do whatever feels right in the moment and then wait for the comments of my advisor AFTER I have tried to produce something of quality. Right now, I'm just blocking trying to get it all perfect from the very start.

Yes, I am very afraid of failing. People in grad school are often over-achievers,type A students & are not used to failing. It's challenging to not have clear guidelines and to do this for the first time, but I guess that's also part of the research process, the ambiguity of it all, especially in qualitative research. I have to say that I have also tried to look for master's thesis in my field using the same kind of methodology that I did and I am struggling to find something that really clears things up for me but I am going to search a bit more.

I have read articles, books on thematic analysis. I have also done a lot of research on Google. It’s clearer in my head but I still feel very insecure about coding. I have little guidance from my supervisor also so I am afraid of doing everything wrong. I realize my supervisor is not the best person for qualitative research. She studies the same research topic as I am, from a slightly different angle ,but she's a quant researcher at heart. I also don't really know what are the expectations for my thesis at this stage also. I have read the elements I will be evaluated for on my uni's website, but I still am afraid of producing something that's not scientific enough and that's not good enough for a master's thesis.

I am starting to feel insecure again about my thesis. I am doing a thematic analysis. The thing is that I don't know how to code my interviews & focus groups and if I should do an intercoder reliability testing before actually starting coding. I don't know what I am doing. This is so confusing.

I'm still working on my app. The research statement is so short compared to other scholarships applications ?

I feel more optimistic about my ability to successfully complete my thesis in early February.

I finished transcribing another interview today. I'm proud because I did that one all day today. I have 4 left to transcribe.

I just wanted to let you know that I also feel isolated. Take care. ❤️

Hello, Ive known my advisor for like 5 years and I get this feeling that she trusts me too much in the research process. I'm pretty much on my own, doing things without being sure that I'm doing them right...it's the first time that I am doing a research project and I don't know how to tell her that I actually need more guidance than what she currently offers me because she trusts me. I know it's a weird issue, but I need supervision, I'm new to the research process...I think it's because I was a A student in undergrad (where she met me) but things are different at the graduate level and I need help and don't know how to tell her.

Amazing! I hope I'll get those next year too!

I finished transcribing a 4th interview. 5 more left till December 7th.

Hello, I am looking to do a thematic analysis with qualitative data (interviews and focus groups) with NVivo 12 for Mac. What are the best tutorials, guides or online Youtube videos for that? I just bought a license and I'm fairly new to using NVivo. Thank you,

You’re absolutely right

I totally understand the feeling. I'd ask for the advice of two people max (plus potential supervisor) that are already in the program you want to apply in.

I feel anxious & guilty every time I'm not transcribing interviews. Sometimes, immediately after I decide to have a break from that task. The worst part is that I am right on my schedule (I plan to finish it all for December 7th) and made a week by week schedule for that task. I always feel like I'm not doing enough, that there's always something left to be done. Wow. Everybody knows I'm a hard worker and I know I am. But I still fear not being able to finish my thesis in February. I also fear producing something that is not "quality research" because I want to produce good work. I did not expect this to be so challenging for my perfectionist and control freak sides of my personality.

I clearly have a feminist stance due to my research topic as a grad student but I am a TA in a not-so-related social work class. I'm 100% sure that some students will be unhappy about that in their final evaluation at the end of the term.

I woke up at 4am this morning and wrote the first draft of the methods section of my thesis.

It would be in a scientific format. It's for scientific journal. Sorry for not expressing myself clearly, my mothertongue is not English.

It's not for PhD admission that I want to write an article, it's for my career in academia in general.

You are misunderstanding. It's not "scrapping" my study. It's using my study to produce an article. It's not "easier" to do this, it's more strategic since I want to pursue a PhD.

Being single and not being able to find a partner feels increasingly unbearable.

I hope meeting with my advisor will clarify things for me next week because I feel lost and I don't know if I can finish my article/thesis for February.

No it doesn't,t need to be published but needs to be at least submitted somewhere.

Urrrghh I hate when that happens. A lot of profs are last minute