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Basically, I feel like I'm completely full of shit. I look at my academic record since I left school, and see a record of mediocrity. I've spent all that time asking people for faith in me, and clearly I must inspire it, because I keep getting it, but I don't want to be a religion; I want to live up to my promises and *prove* that everyone was right to believe in me. The opportunity to do another master's might arise in the reasonably near future and I've been thinking about it as a possible do-over. I'm wondering if it would actually help, and if there's anything else I could do instead.

Thanks for any advice you can give.

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I wrote a whole long-ass spiel on this, but I cut it down to the essential information; do ask if you want me to elaborate.

Two questions:

1) Would doing another master's degree, with another dissertation, improve my chances of getting into a PhD in the UK, Ireland, or the rest of the EU?

2) Is there anything short of doing another master's degree that would achieve the same thing?

Relevant facts:

* I got 81% for my integrated master's degree, which is a decent-ish first (highest degree classification, ≥70%).

* I got 79% for my master's dissertation; both examiners noted, unprompted, that it was very well written; but it doesn't demonstrate a real knowledge of general relativity, the intended subject of my PhD, and I wasn't able to take a class on it.

* I hate my dissertation and think that it's shit; "well written" is about it's only redeeming feature in my view.

* My diss examiners were my academic advisor and my diss supervisor, with whom I have a strong rapport; both have said they'll write me good letters of recommendation when I come to apply for my PhD (which has to be a few years from now for personal reasons).

* I have several other lecturers who I also have a rapport with who can attest to my academic ability in classes I took with them should I need a third letter (my advisor seemed to think this was not standard in the UK).

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