PhD to MPhil to ?

I can't look at it without crying or stressing about it now, the whole PhD/MPhil thing is such a regret and I feel so bad about it all.

Thank you.

It was just so shameful to quit the PhD in the first place and everyone was very disappointed. I then went to try and submit for this MPhil and wrote an entire thesis which I am currently chopping and snipping to make it submit-able. It feels like such a shame and a waste but I hate it and it's making me so stressed and I honestly feel like it is never ending...

I think I may just submit it as it is and then if they give me an MPhil then yay, if they don't then it's not the end of the world... I guess :-/

Screw what anyone else thinks, even your parents/friends. Life is too short to worry about what others think of you. There's no shame in quitting a PhD, it's not for everyone.

I would want to leave with an MPhil of course, because it would be a nice reflection on the work I did do. I have already written a thesis and it was all ready to go. Bu then my supervisor 'reviewed' it for me and he has just completely slated it, saying 'add this chapter' 'remove this' 'that makes no sense' etc. he's made me feel fairly stupid and humiliated.

I'm at the point where I hate looking at it and reading his comments and trying to correct passages is painful and not giving me any sense of fulfilment anymore... what's the point in an MPhil if it's just a failed PhD?! You know, why put in all this hard work.

So I am close to 'getting it done' but I just can't face the corrections which are major and then go through paying extra to go into a second year so I can actually do a viva. The viva will then more than likely give me more corrections (since I am totally over it) and then I have to pay more to keep going. I just see it as a never ending pain in my life that is preventing me from living happily at the moment.