Degree
I was worried I wasn’t getting an MA for a while — my advisor, as I had mentioned, was not interested in putting much effort into my work once it was known I was leaving. Without a paper, I’m not supposed to be able to graduate.
But apparently they feel that perhaps *I* should not be punished for the faculty’s laziness. (Another person on my committee also wants to do nothing, so will sign off on me if my advisor says it’s a good idea.)
Which means, in essence, that I’m getting an MA without any kind of paper or comprehensive exam, just 2 years of courses. Which isn’t really the point, but I suppose I can’t complain. Much. Sort of.
April 17th, 2004 at 9:57 am
*shrug* You’ve written papers. You’ve done the work, even if they don’t want to read it.
Take the MA and run.
The dirty little secret here is that they don’t LIKE to read and evaluate papers. I had a very similar thing happen to me — got assigned an extra research seminar because of a bureaucratic snafu, but NOBODY wanted to supervise or grade it, even though I was being as cooperative as I knew how to be.
April 17th, 2004 at 1:18 pm
You could think of it as a course-work MA –lots of those around in my day. You’ve done the work to earn it.
April 17th, 2004 at 2:45 pm
It is a non-thesis MA. I’m just supposed to have done certain things for it, which I don’t think I have. However, everyone’s signing off on it, and I’m not going to complain too much about not having to do work.
April 19th, 2004 at 11:36 am
No, but I can see why you’d have mixed feelings about their indifference/laziness.