Good news… and bad news…

I have the res­ults for my thesis.

The good news is that I got an HD. 80%. Scraped into an HD. 

The bad news is that as I’ve never been a huge fan of com­pet­i­tion or grad­ing like that because I am hyper-com­pet­it­ive and I don’t like that in myself (I delib­er­ately chose to do an ungraded under­gradu­ate degree), I’m more inter­ested in the comments.

And the com­ments say I didn’t state my research ques­tions clearly and that the thesis is “short on clear and ori­ginal out­comes”. This is pretty much accur­ate: it’s all the stuff I was wor­ried about when I kept saying I was scared it would­n’t do well.

Well, I guess the good way to look at this is that the exam­iner saw all the flaws that were in there and still thought it was worth an HD. The good com­ments are: “The thesis exhib­its an excel­lent and soph­ist­ic­ated level of research and schol­ar­ship – pub­lic­a­tion level”.

Yay!!!!!!

More inter­est­ing com­ment­ary on the Maus exhib­i­tion, the Jewish Musuem, the 2004 exhib­i­tion and the Philip Brophy musical odys­sey soon. Promise!