Not that it would necessarily be the best thing for her anyway, but I’m surprised she hasn’t started planning what Masters she’ll do? Quite a lot of my friends started their application in third year, and they had a life beyond studying
Ruby definitely wanted her dissertation to be finished first, and she planned that as an audition piece to attach to her Masters application.
In her mind, she was going to write a Masters or above piece of work at undergrad level, and it was going to wow the admissions people reviewing her application with how she was working far beyond her academic level.
She'd said before that she was expecting her dissertation to be a part of future scholarship and that she was choosing her topic to compliment her Masters subject. She was also blatantly trying to butter up the lecturers on campus most likely to provide good references for her or who would potentially teach her at Masters level if she went to Exeter. She's completely delusional.
Maybe it started to dawn on her while writing this nonsense that she was completely out of her depth and that's why she decided to skip a year. Admissions definitely aren't going to be impressed to see a brainless dolt with no grasp of English apply for an English Masters and hand over a completely incoherent dissertation that reads like 6 unrelated and poorly-written GCSE essays jumbled together to form one thesis.
Masters would definitely be a bad idea, if she even got accepted anywhere. She has no future in academia, and none of the career opportunities opened up by a Masters would be remotely withing the scope of her ability, so it would be a total waste of time and money. She clearly hates education beyond the superficial praise she gets for appearing to be productive and studious.
She'll probably pivot to writing this year instead now that she has an agent, and transplant all her terrible habits, horrible, dishonest study techniques and fabricated timelines onto being an aspiring bestseller who lies about everything instead. Expect lots of "study with me" type vlogs wherein Ruby stares gormlessly at her laptop and then says, "I wryote TAN thousand WARDS in this hour AND THAN
I...went for a waahlk AND THAN
I...REE-SAARCHED for 6 hours AND THAN
I...wryote elavan thousand mwoar wards."