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warblers
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Posted: Sun Apr 6th, 2008 05:05 pm |
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| Has anyone's kid done a thesis, especially those aiming for grad school? Was it a good/bad experience? Not too many people (< 10%) here complete a thesis, but I've been considering it. Last edited on Sun Apr 6th, 2008 05:07 pm by warblers
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CarolynLawrence
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Posted: Sun Apr 6th, 2008 05:57 pm |
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Warblers, regardless of how many people there do it, you have always struck me as someone who likes to dig deeper than average. I think that is the exact reason to write a senior thesis: because you are eager to pursue a topic in some depth. The other benefits -- grad school, future employment, etc. -- are all nice benefits, but the real reason to do it is because you can't imagine not doing it. Good luck!
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NCEph
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Posted: Sun Apr 6th, 2008 08:16 pm |
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Warblers - For whatever little it may be worth, I've always regretted not writing a thesis. I think it's the ultimate academic endeavor as an undergraduate.
I say go for it, although I understand what sounds like a little concern that only 10% write theses there. Do you think that 10% is unusually low for similarly sized and ranked schools? So out of your class of around 1,600 students, about 160 write theses? I think my fear might be that I'd be holed up in the library while the rest of the seniors were out having fun, but that's probably an unfounded fear, as the other seniors are, I hope, hard at work on other things. I would really regret it if such a fear kept me from pursuing something I really wanted to study.
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DesperateDad
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Posted: Sun Apr 6th, 2008 08:29 pm |
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| I was speaking with a recent grad of my son's college, and he said the one big regret that he and some of his friends had was not undertaking the thesis, particularly since the college is LAC-like, and the profs offered lotsa support.
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Posted: Mon Apr 7th, 2008 04:09 am |
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| Princeton requires them of everyone. One of the great life experiences. Go for it.
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Posted: Mon Apr 7th, 2008 02:48 pm |
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Whitman requires them too--and I think a good number of other LACs. I think it really helps with a student's sense of mastery/competence and offers a kind of closure to the undergrad experience. I also think it can help students learn what graduate level work is like--and I know of at least one who sailed through her master's program because she was able to simply extend work she had done in her undergrad theses in a meaningful way...
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