The I Feel Happy Topic!

[NuttySquirrel]

After over 10,000 words and a whole summer of literature reviewing, data wrangling, model building and results compilation, I’ve today submitted my MSc dissertation! I’m nervous to see how it’s received, but I’m happy I’ve tried the best I could have on it, and given the circumstances, I’m reasonably pleased with the final product!

It’s been a tough project at points, but it’s also been a really interesting one too, and I’ve learned a lot! It feels quite bittersweet knowing that this is the last thing I will ever submit as a full-time student after 18 years of schooling in various guises, but it is good to have it done, if nothing else.

Congratulations @Matt N. If your writing up phase looked anything like mine for my MA Dissertation I am sure you are hugely relieved!

 

[Matt N]

Congratulations @Matt N. If your writing up phase looked anything like mine for my MA Dissertation I am sure you are hugely relieved!

I tried to write the report up progressively as I went along, so the actual write up wasn’t too bad.

But the dataset I was given was really, really challenging to work with compared to anything else I’d ever done, and my corporate sponsor (officially speaking, I did my dissertation with a corporate sponsor, but it was mainly self-guided, with 1 or 2 meetings with them, at my instigation, during the entire process) gave such incredibly vague direction that it was hard to know whether I was going the right way at times!

So I’m definitely glad to be leaving the less than ideal dataset and very vague direction behind, if nothing else!