Um. Wow.

[triskellian]

I haven't mentioned my degree result, because I'm kinda shy about it, although people ask sometimes. I'm mentioning it now because I've just had an email from my dissertation supervisor telling me that he's nominated me for an award which is given to the best dissertation in the school written by a student who gets a first overall. He's at pains to point out that the competition will be stiff - I'll be up against the best dissertations in each of the other fields the school offers (I think there are five in total, although it's a bit hard to tell) but if I win there's a medium-sized cash prize, and even the nomination is a nice thing to be able to put on any theoretical graduate study applications I might be thinking of making!

I'm not less shy about it, by the way, I'm just, well, a bit gob-smacked. Telling the news makes it more real :-)

Comments

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, that's really impressive!

[white_hart]

Oh, well done!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_alanna/]

Congratulations, that's great :)

[kirian.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! Even if the competition is tough, just being nominated is a huge thing in and of itself. Yay!

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

Well done!

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

Yay!¹

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[spindr.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's brilliant. Congratulations!

[(Anonymous)]

Brilliant - well done, and here's hoping for the award.

[al-fruitbat.livejournal.com]

[furious applause]

[ladymoonray.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! On both the degree result and the prize nomination. I hope you get it :)

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Eee! Well done you! That's fantastic.

[dyddgu.livejournal.com]

Congratulations :-) (though I am, of course, totally unsurprised ;-)

[lathany.livejournal.com]

That's wonderful news!

[almostalady.livejournal.com]

Amazing news about the dissertation and best of luck with the award!

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

w00t! Congratulations!

I am very pleased, but less gobsmacked than you :)

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

So those purchases of bound volumes in Epping second-hand shops may yet prove to be a sound financial as well as intellectual investment... Good luck, you certainly deserve it!

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! You know contests are significant when people start attaching cash prizes. Congrats on the shortlisting!

Will you get to read the other essays?

[triskellian]

Different dissertation - that was my 'independent study', which is like a mini dissertation. And which got a much higher mark than my actual dissertation, which is the prize-nominated one!

[triskellian]

Will you get to read the other essays?
No idea! None of the others will be in my field, though, so I wouldn't necessarily find them comprehensible/interesting anyway - it's one nomination per field by the sound of it.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Hope this one was cheaper then ;-)

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

Eeeee! Congrats! *thinks good thoughts*

[sosoclever.livejournal.com]

Wow! Congratulations on the nomination!

[killalla]

Many Congratulations.

[uitlander]

Congratulations and well done. All that effort paid off. Go you!

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

Wow, good work!

[triskellian]

One exclamation mark is always sufficient, apart from when taking the piss out of people who get over-excited, and even then it's best to insert an 'eleventy' as well to be clear that this isn't habitual overuse of exclamation marks ;-)

(Overuse of smilies, OTOH, I am entirely guilty of!)

[triskellian]

Cheaper in money, but I had to pay with a bit of my soul: I bought some copies of the Mail on Sunday :-(

[frax.livejournal.com]

That is such amazing news! Well Done.

[mkononi.livejournal.com]

That is awesome work ms Triskellian - congrats on the shortlist and good luck on the actual contest!