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I am 3 days away from hand in of my masters thesis (research project 20,000 words) My supervisor has been great and I value and trust his judgement and opinion. He suggested that I email the results to another prof who panicked me and wanted me to make some changes which I didn't really think were necessary- reformatting tables in quite a major way, changing order of things and changing things that would need to be changed many times throughout. I don't really want to because time is of the essence and I think the time could be better spent as my supervisor is ok with the way I have done it already. I discussed it with him and some stuff he just said was matter of opinion and others were good ideas and others not to worry about. I was meant to email the other prof my results again but I can't bear to do it as I haven't made many of the changes he suggested. He is NOT my supervisor, his copy printed weird which didn't help, I had since redrafted it and sorted typos anyway, he did not realise I had so little time left. BUT... I don't want to offend him or be rude in disregarding his advice which I guess I am doing. What would you suggest. Sorry this is long!

Submit your thesis and then send the other guy your revised copy and say that you realise the value of his input but that you didn't have much time before you need to submit.

Also, what do you need from this other prof? Are you staying on for a PhD there, do you need a reference from him? If not, don't worry too much. Academics are used to being ignored/ignoring.

Thanks for reply. I made some changes and emailed it as wanted it off my mind. I said as you suggested that I was grateful for his input, limited time etc. Hopefully now I can get on with getting it finished without feeling guilty/ worrying about it.
I am employed in same organisation and though might not have much to do with him in future, he has been quite supportive about HR matters in the past and I would prefer to keep on people's good sides if possible...