Anyone here ever written a thesis? What was your thesis on? How long did it take you to write?
This is a serious thread for smrt people.
I like calling it a dissertation dessertation.
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 pie123452001 |
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Posts: 31749 (09/01/08 7:50 AM) Registered user |
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yukugajoob |
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Posts: 875 (09/01/08 7:52 AM) |
Only one. Senior year in high school. Topic: The Political Advancement of the Black Race in the 1960s. Took three months to write. 64 pages. Got an A. Still
have it in its original clear protective covering in an old box of high school crap somewhere in the attic.
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pie123452001 |
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Posts: 31751 (09/01/08 8:05 AM) Registered user |
yaY! MLK is rolling proudly in his grave, yukugajoob.
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Zzunk |
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Posts: 3904 (09/01/08 8:16 AM) Registered User |
Someday I'll have the time to write a thesis on either 1) the late Pleistocene fluvial periglacial factors that created the mima mounds in Thurston County,
Washington, or 2) the effects of seasonal playa processes and climatic events on the movement of rocks at the south end of Racetrack Valley, California, or 3)
why the fuck do people taste their boogers.
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bassoon291 |
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Posts: 6930 (09/01/08 8:17 AM) Registered user |
Afternoon, Pie.
Going to have to write one sooner or later... around 70 pages. Might do something on separatist movements in Europe. |
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Karl Pilkington |
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Posts: 560 (09/01/08 8:19 AM) Registered user |
it is a proven medical fact that people who eat their boogers do not get colds as often.
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CBRetriever |
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Posts: 20739 (09/01/08 8:20 AM) MESS member |
ZZunk's studying geology?
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pie123452001 |
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Posts: 31754 (09/01/08 8:22 AM) Registered user |
 Zzunk 1) sounds environmentally boring, 2) neigh, just neigh. I vote for 3).
Mornin', bassoondee! |
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 Kimbob the Magnificent |
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Posts: 5039 (09/01/08 8:27 AM) Yes, smarter than you |
I'm currently working on mine: A study in social structure and the cultural evolution of message boards. I focus on virtual ass sniffing as a means of
identification, the hierarchy and class structure of tribal leaders and their sycophants, the efficacy of taunts regarding gross tonnage and threats of social
services, and the inherent fascism behind the ban button.
It will be a masterpiece of social commentary. Kimbob the Furiously Scribbling |
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CBRetriever |
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Posts: 20740 (09/01/08 8:29 AM) MESS member |
I didn't have to do a thesis, but I did have to do a senior paper in college
I was getting a nutrition degree, so I had to pick some disease and thoroughly discuss it and its nutritional effect and treeatment - I didn't go the easy route with diabestes, heart disease, etc - I picked heroin addiction I received an A on the paper |
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pie123452001 |
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Posts: 31755 (09/01/08 8:30 AM) Registered user |
Damn, Kimbob the (soon to be) PhDee.
We wanna be your guinea pigs! 
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yukugajoob |
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Posts: 876 (09/01/08 8:36 AM) |
Yeah, well, it wasn't my first choice. Rule was no duplicate topics, first come, first served, alphabetically by class. I had English 7th period and my
last name is halfway through the alphabet. First choice: Politics, deemed to broad. Then: Politics in the 1960s, still too broad. Finally: Black Politics in
the 1960s, which my teacher then renamed to what it became.
Oh, yeah, they had to be typed, double spaced, with cover page, opening thesis statement and closing synopsis, broken into three sections with section titles, no liquid paper or correction tape, complete with footnotes and full bibliography, and spelling and grammar counted. Oh, yeah, that's how we did it in the olden days before every stinkin' snot nosed kid had a home computer, Microsoft Word with spellcheck, and the interwebs for research. And the grade was a full one third of our final grade. You failed the thesis, you failed Senior English, which meant you failed Senior Year and did NOT graduate. |
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Je Fa |
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Posts: 427 (09/01/08 8:37 AM) |
how many calories does heroin have?
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yukugajoob |
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Posts: 877 (09/01/08 8:37 AM) |
CBR, I think we're close to the same age. Was addiction considered a disease when you wrote your paper or was that considered ground breaking then?
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pie123452001 |
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Posts: 31756 (09/01/08 8:38 AM) Registered user |
CBRetriever wrote: CB, for shits and giggles, you should have dusted your report with icing sugar before handing it in. That would have given you that A+, yo.
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StarrEise |
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Posts: 6487 (09/01/08 8:40 AM) |
I wrote a creative Master's thesis for my Professional Writing Program. It was 130 pages, including the first 80 pages of my novel, and a literary review
and analysis of other works of fiction in that genre, culture, and time period.
It was a beast. |
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merkyl |
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Posts: 57580 (09/01/08 8:41 AM) Registered loser |
CB, for shits and giggles, you should have dusted your report with icing sugar before handing it in.It's called powdered sugar or confectioners sugar. Please keep you Canookistanian terms out of here. |
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Loki |
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Posts: 15645 (09/01/08 8:43 AM) Monkey tamer |
I wrote a thesis in university on the Cuban Missile Crisis. Or was it the Bay of Pigs incident? I forget.
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CBRetriever |
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Posts: 20742 (09/01/08 8:44 AM) MESS member |
No it wasn't really at that time, I really had to scour the library at the med school to find proof. And then to find proof that other than the adict not
eating, that there was a nutritional effect. One thing that I did find that was interesting was that some people have absolutely no reaction to opiate based
drugs - they simply don't work at all on them
and there weren't handy dandy ways to look up articles: card catalogs and then the bibliographies from the articles I found to go even further. Books weren't much help on my topic and yeah, I had to use a typewriter - fortunately by that time I had one with that correcting tape |
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yukugajoob |
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Posts: 878 (09/01/08 8:44 AM) |
Starr, did you finish the novel?
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merkyl |
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Posts: 57582 (09/01/08 8:45 AM) Registered loser |
I'd like to read more about Loki's pigs.
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