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Good luck; you're nearly there!

Tell you what, as a lecturer on a master's course, dude you got in the nick of time, because the 2020 intake are going to have an absolute fucking doozey of a time with COVID-related amendments. Totally bananas how different it will all look. Substantially online, and starting later in the year but the 2nd semester (i.e. January 2021) they want as normal, so it'll basically be nightmarish for folk in Nov-Jan.

Advice from someone who has marked MSc theses for years.

1. Make it look clean. Obviously, an amazingly written thesis which looks crap will still get a good grade, but you prime the marker if it's clean, neat, no absolutely daft typos in the first page etc. It is not a perfect 1:1 correlation that a sloppily written, poorly formatted thesis does badly or vice versa, but it's definitely *there*.

2. Make it clear what gap in the literature you're filling.

3. critical appraisal. Why is what you've done good, but also shite? That's where your absolute 1st class grades are.

Good luck; you'll be grand. Especially because, massive skinny here, Glasgow uni at least is fucking petrified of students kicking off that they weren't understanding re exceptional circumstances, so there are top grades flying off the shelves like you wouldn't believe. Is that a vague insult to folk who really did work hard and deserved it? Yeah probably, a bit. But the long-and-short is, you won't fail unless you absolutely duff it, and even then you can resubmit under 'no detriment'.

In short; you're *definitely* grand.