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  1. My final point is to say that this isn't the end. By taking careful concern and care for the reviewer's remarks, you will pass your thesis. But you should inquire into yourself as to whether you should go on to the PhD or enter the workforce and begin making the impact in caring for others that you can begin now, with a master's degree. You can have such an impact that you would be delaying for 4, 6, 8 or more years by doing the PhD and may avoid an even more difficult scenario in the future.
  2. Let me also point out, that as long as posters were willing to indulge the narrative of victimization and the unfairness of that experience, the OP was perfectly receptive. But as soon as someone made the mere suggestion that the reviewer might actually have a point, then it is, "You’re judgmental! You're putting words in my mouth! Leave me alone!" This is becoming a pattern. I'm not God and I don't have a crystal ball. But if you're genuinely unable to engage the reviewer and even entertain the notion that your thesis was seriously lacking, and aren't even able to take criticism in an online post, which I found quite respectful and appropriate, without lashing out in the manner demonstrated on page 2, save your time and energy and don't do a PhD because it is just going to get much worse from here.
  3. I'm not here to dogpile on the OP, but I have decided to log in for the first time in perhaps nearly seven and a half years to weigh in. This post has been unfairly received. I'm not sure that the criticism applies, but I think it's on point. There is a tenor throughout all OP's posts that her problems are not of her own invention, but that they are merely things that have happened to her, which were totally unforeseeable and against all expectation, indeed are even quite unfair. There is great deal of blame shifting I believe, and the complete rejection in her response to this post that any of it may possibly be true or apply here, indeed I felt when reading it that she wanted to characterize this as a kind of character assassination, an aggressive attempt to harass and badger the OP, when I see actually astute suggestions that no one else here is making, but that I think are balanced, and said with moderation, and need to have been said. I would add to this has the OP considered that her advisor is frankly out of her depth? It sounds like there is a huge rift between what the advisor thinks is an acceptable level for a master's thesis and what the reviewer thinks is appropriate. As much is implied by the advisor's suggestion that the reviewer is being too demanding. I actually find the story of the OP very fascinating and have spent some time reading through some of her threads going back over two years. I've sensed throughout a sense of doubt about her ability. This uncertainty has been present since very early on and I think what has happened is she gave herself false assurances, thinking that things would just "work out". A person can sell themselves short, by not believing in themselves, and this in turn breeds a sort of complacency which says, "I will write it and if it is accepted it is accepted and if it's not it's not." These self-imposed limitations are like painting a target on one's own back. There are two kinds of people, I believe. People who things happen to and people who make things happen. OP is very strongly in the former category. This idea that people are passive agents, that life has treated unfairly or has handed rotten experiences must be set aside now and forever.
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