just to cut the long story short,my supervisor left in november and allocated me another one.i submitted my 3 chapters and abstract to the new one on da 07 dec as per our agreement and she only replied end of jan 2013 that she lost my work and the comments she was drafting as her PC crashed. She said i shud change my research questions and tailor my research according to the research questions which i did.i now feel like im writing rubbish and am scared that I will fail because the deadline for submission is end of march and i have 25000 words and they need 40-45 000 words.she hasnt given me any thorough comments and her advise to change my research questions has just demotivated me as now i dont know what Im doing and feel like i have wasted a year with my previous sup.i feel like i will not make the deadline and if i do I might fail.i find it hard to write it up because i always feel like im writing nonsense due to lack of guidance.im also stressed because my funding has ran out,dont have any job after march let alone a proper place to stay.i have been sleeping in the graduate computer lab for the past week trying to type this MA and im demotivated and have lost all confident in my writing.if anyone has gone through supervisor changes,given massive correction at ashort period of time and lost focus and interest in their research please help!should i quit and just go back home?

Hi See_Lee,
welcome to the Forum! You're just one month away from submitting, don't worry. I really feel for you, as it isn't easy changing supervisors. Are you able to change your research questions then? Remember that when you write your Discussion, they have to revert back to the research questions as well--as some people tend to get carried away (too much to discuss!).

Give yourself a time limit to feel demotivated (honestly!) and when that time is up, sit--buckle down and write the rest of your thesis! I used to feel very demotivated as well--and as silly as it sounds, I let myself moan and feel miserable all morning. I always started work after 11.30am (after I've done my moan-of-the-day) and managed to finish my thesis.

You still have time. Mostly we feel demotivated because we have been told to change, and we human beings, we generally don't like change! We like to stick to the way we were. We like our previous supervisors, we got so used to them. Never mind!

You still have some days! You do need to finish this MA, I really feel that you should not quit now--we're so close, See_Lee!!! Go for it! If you say you wasted one year, what is another month? Don't quit. Write something, do something.

Remember that the feelings that you are having--all the inadequacies, inconsistencies, that is just emotion--don't let them take over!!! Take control of YOU, yourSelf, take back control---go for it! You can do it!

love satchi