Wonderful World of Academia: The results are in!
Okay, one result is in. Meaning the first expertise on my Master's thesis. Yesterday, I sent my advisor and second referee an e-mail asking whether they thought enrolling for another semester might be a good idea, after all (according to the registrar's office, I can defend my thesis despite not being enrolled anymore but would definitely have to be enrolled for a second attempt in case I fail the thesis). My advisor replied today, telling me he's pretty sure I don't need to enroll for another semester and made a suggestion for a date for the thesis defence (October 11). Took me a moment to realize that he also attached a PDF file containing his expertise to the e-mail.
Thanks to my wonderful Twitter timeline, I had the guts to open it right after noticing the attachment (I'm notorious for procrastinating reading important e-mails or stuff that in any way judges any of my work, like expertises or reviews from lecturers or superiors, to the point of it becoming a real problem. I still haven't looked at the expertise for the Paper of DOOM from over a year ago) and uh, what the hell? Like, I made myself scroll right to the bottom so I could get to the most important part (the grade) first and get it over with and uh.
Guys.
Guys.
My advisor honest to God thinks that my thesis, the thing that gave me so many headaches, that made me doubt my ability to scholar, that looked like the biggest academic clusterfuck I ever produced to me rates a whopping 1,0 (in American terms, this equals a 4.0). I read the entire expertise and I don't even know what to say to that. I was hoping for something above 2,6 and never in a million years did I expect a 1,0. I'm kind of wary of the second expertise (as I really have no assessment whatsoever of the second referee. He graded me exactly once before, and that was four years ago. I was absolutely okay with the grade he gave me back then but really, I have no idea where he'll place me this time around) but yeah, apparently, he didn't fail me, either or he wouldn't already have agreed on a date for the defence. So... wish me luck that his grade will be at least in the vicinity of the first grade and that I don't mess up the defence too bad?
Other than that, lots of adult crap in my life currently as I need to apply for social welfare (Hartz IV), scrap together a list of possible employers, see if I can get references from past employers, apply to jobs all over the place and pray to every possible supernatural entity that I won't be unemployed for longer than three to six months and can find a job that actually pays reasonable wages and won't leave me hating it every damn day I have to be at the office.
What about you, guys? Any good news recently? Any not so good news (I'm always here to listen, you know that, right?)? Tell me!
Thanks to my wonderful Twitter timeline, I had the guts to open it right after noticing the attachment (I'm notorious for procrastinating reading important e-mails or stuff that in any way judges any of my work, like expertises or reviews from lecturers or superiors, to the point of it becoming a real problem. I still haven't looked at the expertise for the Paper of DOOM from over a year ago) and uh, what the hell? Like, I made myself scroll right to the bottom so I could get to the most important part (the grade) first and get it over with and uh.
Guys.
Guys.
My advisor honest to God thinks that my thesis, the thing that gave me so many headaches, that made me doubt my ability to scholar, that looked like the biggest academic clusterfuck I ever produced to me rates a whopping 1,0 (in American terms, this equals a 4.0). I read the entire expertise and I don't even know what to say to that. I was hoping for something above 2,6 and never in a million years did I expect a 1,0. I'm kind of wary of the second expertise (as I really have no assessment whatsoever of the second referee. He graded me exactly once before, and that was four years ago. I was absolutely okay with the grade he gave me back then but really, I have no idea where he'll place me this time around) but yeah, apparently, he didn't fail me, either or he wouldn't already have agreed on a date for the defence. So... wish me luck that his grade will be at least in the vicinity of the first grade and that I don't mess up the defence too bad?
Other than that, lots of adult crap in my life currently as I need to apply for social welfare (Hartz IV), scrap together a list of possible employers, see if I can get references from past employers, apply to jobs all over the place and pray to every possible supernatural entity that I won't be unemployed for longer than three to six months and can find a job that actually pays reasonable wages and won't leave me hating it every damn day I have to be at the office.
What about you, guys? Any good news recently? Any not so good news (I'm always here to listen, you know that, right?)? Tell me!