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Wow! Just Wow! :eek:

You deserve all the backslapping you can get missus. I'm totally in awe of you! :eek: :cool:

Well done. xx
 
Vintage Paw said:
See, I sound like a nobber when I say I write stuff in a day, staying up all night before it's due in to finish it, but it's actually true. Which, in turn, means when I get good marks it only reinforces that behaviour because I think my fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants writing style is somehow linked to my achievement and if I take my time and put in more work I'll do crap. See. Nobber.
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Well you're obviously doing something right!! :D

So you ain't a nobber. You have a natural flare that doesn't need work. Which in my book = raw talent.
 
Originally Posted by my lovely supervisor
This is extraordinary work - one of the best three or four essays I have
ever read at Keele in more than 15 years. With one or two revisions and a
little expansion here and there it could go straight into somewhere like
the Journal of American Studies (I'd appreciate the second marker's
thoughts on this). In a sense then, all I need to do now is to rise to my
feet, applaud, cheer, and throw my metaphorical cap into the air. This is
a hugely intelligent, incisive, stylish, detailed, perceptive,
knowledgeable and original piece of work. You were absolutely right to
leave Bourdieu as an implicit presence (though if you were minded to seek
publication for this piece I would be inclined to bring him back to the
surface a little). The material on The Intuitionist is not only wholly
persuasive, it is also hilarious. And you play what may be the great trick
of critical writing (which is not a trick in the end, simply the real
thing): you appear to be taking an oblique and slightly quirky approach
rather than writing a comprehensive 'essay on ... ' but you then show,
cumulatively and convincingly, that all the time you have in fact been
going right to the very heart of the issues. I am lost for admiration,
almost for words. Well done!
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I would actually cry if I got that :D
 
Been in touch with him, he said the exam board was green with envy because all his students (there are 4 of us) did really well.

Of course I always secretly hope I did best.

Or not so secretly.

But that's because I'm a cunt. :D
 
Vintage Paw said:
See, I sound like a nobber when I say I write stuff in a day, staying up all night before it's due in to finish it, but it's actually true. Which, in turn, means when I get good marks it only reinforces that behaviour because I think my fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants writing style is somehow linked to my achievement and if I take my time and put in more work I'll do crap. See. Nobber.
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I'm exactly the same, except that I never do that well. You clever bitch :D :mad: :cool: :)

Joe sends congratulatory kisses, extra slobbery!
 
May Kasahara said:
I'm exactly the same, except that I never do that well. You clever bitch :D :mad: :cool: :)

Joe sends congratulatory kisses, extra slobbery!
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Slobbery Joe kisses! The best congratulations of all.

London_Calling said:
That's wonderful.

Got to try and keep it up now, though!

Well done.
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God, don't. I nearly bloody quit the course writing that essay, I've so little self-awareness when it comes to my work I'm continually stressed out, convinced this time will be the time I'm shown up as a fraud!

sparklefish said:
Well done VP, those comments are amazing. :cool:
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Hehe, thanks. I keep reading them and grinning lol
 
Vintage Paw said:
Hehe, thanks. I keep reading them and grinning lol
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Awww :)

This may sound really fucking pathetic, but I still have the ace comments/essays from my degree, and read them every now and again to cheer myself up :rolleyes::D A little ego boost on days where it's all gone to shit!
 
sojourner said:
Awww :)

This may sound really fucking pathetic, but I still have the ace comments/essays from my degree, and read them every now and again to cheer myself up :rolleyes::D A little ego boost on days where it's all gone to shit!
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Not pathetic at all.
We all need to keep reminding ourselves of our achievements. ;)

And VP, congrats on such marvelous feedback for your essay. Well done :)
 
Very well done. Congratulations! I remember how it felt getting marked at 86% for a paper I did for my masters. I'd have probably exploded if I'd managed to equal you and get 90%. :D
 
I've only just read this thread. Brilliant result for brilliant work. And yeah, definitely try to get it published, see what revisions and extra information might be needed. It could be the start of an illustrious academic career, it certainly wouldn't do your career prospects any harm to have something published. Well done! :D
 
ViolentPanda said:
Very well done. Congratulations! I remember how it felt getting marked at 86% for a paper I did for my masters. I'd have probably exploded if I'd managed to equal you and get 90%. :D
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Did anybody else make the classic Urban mix-up and wonder why Vintage Paw was congratulating herself all over again? :D
 
beeboo said:
Kabbes misread "Violent Panda" as "Vintage Paw", so L_C said "Kained" instead of "Kabbes" as a joke. lol. rofl. etc.

Always loses something in the explanation.
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Oh

I see

Yes, it does, but thank you for the explanation anyway.

Shit joke



Sorry for the derail VP
 
Vintage Paw said:
I've so little self-awareness when it comes to my work I'm continually stressed out, convinced this time will be the time I'm shown up as a fraud!
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And again, snap. We are sisters in academic practice, except for your getting 90% and all that :D

Still, you've inspired me to pull my finger out when I return to my course in September.
 
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