Results!

[annwfyn]

I just got my MA results.

I got a Pass.

As Camberwell only gives two marks - Pass and Distinction - I don't feel as bad as I could have done. I am having some level of academic angst, but then, I didn't really need a distinction. Not for what I'm doing next. I just need to damn certificate for my job, and then for accreditation. Still, it would have been nice to feel like the special shiny clever person for once, instead of a bit of an also-ran. However, I shall remind myself that I've not been as committed to this MA as I could have been - I've run larp games, I've been volunteering at a museum 2-3 days per week, and I've been bouncing around the countryside role playing. It's why, as a rule, I've tended not to get Firsts, or Distinctions, or the like.

Still, I do feel a bit 'meh'. But hopefully that will pass and soon I'll just remember that I've got the MA, and now I can move on to the new job. I just hope that all does come together.

Comments

[reindeerflotila.livejournal.com]

you passed, you can still do what you want to do. You have acheived something in an obscure field that leaves others sick with envy.


Be.Happy.

Or I smite you with a floofy pillow

[ginasketch.livejournal.com]

iawtc

[suchid.livejournal.com]

An MA from Oxford is still a shiny clever person thing to have.

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

:)

I got an MPhil from Oxford. It was an Archaeology MPhil. This is an MA from Camberwell College of Art. It is in Conservation.

Neither are good enough for phd funding, which makes me sad. :(

[suchid.livejournal.com]

Ah, my mistake. ;)

You can still do a phd though? Every cloud has a silver lining.

[wildrogue.livejournal.com]

Most people would consider an MA proof of being clever. Having two masters just makes you a smarty pants.

Which I used to think meant you had cool multi-coloured polka-dot underwear. My version is much more interesting.

Seriously though - congrats, you deserve it. Passing at all is a fabulous thing to do.

[flamma-lupus.livejournal.com]

Perhaps not the dazzling heights of academic achievement you'd have liked, but as you say yourself you had a life at the same time and my understanding is it's hard to get a Distinction *AND* have one of those.

On the other hand, isn't this you second masters degree, making you increadibly well qualified and evidently very clever.

Instead of looking at it as not getting a distinction, look at it a different way. You've managed to acquire a SECOND very heavy duty qualification, AND come out sane, AND have a social life, AND (to my knowledge) come out sane, with happy memories. Now *that* is a distinction! :)

[stormie.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!!!!

Good on you for sticking with it despite your other demands.

[alasdair.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[imagesandwords.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

I'll be joining you in Pass-ville in September I think.

It seems a bit of a shame that it's all or nothing, I have got (just) distinction marks for the year but I doubt I'll manage it for the dissertation.

[nadriel.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[badgersandjam.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the MA, and I'm sure with all your quals the job will sort itself!

[soullessflyer.livejournal.com]

Many congrats, very well done indeed. :o)

[huggy-pixie.livejournal.com]

Congrats love and well done.
Hugs Pixie

[fire-sermon.livejournal.com]

Many congrats!

[skinny-cartman.livejournal.com]

*chuckles*

You know full well that you're clever enough to have gotten a distinction if you'd have committed to it more, the fact that you had a life and a job at the same time and still managed to get a Pass shows that really, the fact that you can juggle such things and achieve is a positive thing and not something to put yourself down about, and its another string to your bow etc.

So whats the plan now, more academic achievement or actually doing a job you might enjoy for a while?

[pmp.livejournal.com]

Quite frankly, you shouldn't feel bad for *only* getting a Pass. You set out to complete the course and you've done it, which is more than many many other people have managed!

You're damned clever AND you know how to apply yourself!

[molez.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! :)

*hugs*

[melsner.livejournal.com]

Just remember. You're coming to America. Being surrounded by Americans is a sure way to feel like the most clever girl in the room.

[omentide.livejournal.com]

Congratulations.

And sympathies. I never quite got over 'not getting a first'.

But I don't have any kind of higher degree at all.

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

Superb! You will have to get huge business cards to fit on all the letters after your name.

[ellroy.livejournal.com]

Congratulations :-)

No congratulations...

[eladriell.livejournal.com]

'Cos it's not exactly a surprise is it?

You did enough to pass, you could have done more, tee-ho.

better than nothing tho innit?

learn and grow etc.

Re: No congratulations...

[mangochutney04.livejournal.com]

Congrats hon! I think you should view it very positively. I'm sure if they had a "Merit" category you would have got it. It's just the College's silly system.

[lilitufire.livejournal.com]

ahahahaha. This :)