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I wouldn't think twice about getting an email from my bachelor's thesis advisor telling me that the disposition (for which I had no guidelines apart from "should include disposition, structure, and literature") was meant to be, or even that she simply preferred it to be, 5-7 pages long rather than 2 and much more detailed than what I handed in. (Even though my advisor refused to discuss the topic in advance because "in her experience results are better if the students become familiar with the topic on their own and come up with their own approach", and so if I had gone into that much detail I would have been frustrated to now be told to leave certain chapters out entirely. And the topic and most of the relevant legal field were completely new to me when I got it and I only had one month.)

But getting an email that says "I have never received a disposition this short" and "most students add a lot more detail which makes it easier for us to give feedback" – what am I meant to do with that? Sorry you suck at giving sufficiently detailed instructions? Sorry you didn't realize that a 15 minute video conference did not convey the same amount of information about what's expected than the usual prep meetings do? The actual feedback she gave was fine, but I found the tone of her entire message infuriating.
I'm now trying to vent to enough people about this so that when I reply I'll be nice and polite and thankful instead of trying to justify myself. Grr.
(Possibly I am overreacting a bit?; whatever.)