{"id":309,"date":"2013-07-03T07:05:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T11:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/?p=309"},"modified":"2013-07-03T07:05:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T11:05:46","slug":"now-thats-what-i-call-a-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/2013\/07\/03\/now-thats-what-i-call-a-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Now That’s What I Call a Thesis!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Yesterday I received the coolest package ever! Wrapped in two layers of cotton cloth, hand-sewn on the edges, sealed with blood-red wax and an impressive array of labels, stamps and other comments we all speculated about its contents for a while. Our guesses ranged from “looks like a bomb” (but then, how would it ever have made it through customs and its associated layers of border security), to “plain old textbook”, to “whatever it is – it looks impressive”.
\nCameron supplied a knife and after a a few minutes of carefully cutting through the strings and seams we stared at the fanciest PhD thesis we’d ever seen.
\n\"\"<\/a>It was over 300 pages in length (315 pages to be exact) and came with a request that asked me to complete a “detailed adjudication report”. Now, finally,\u00a0 I recalled having responded to a very friendly request about a year ago to review a thesis, about 100 pages in length.\"\"<\/a>Well, I should have read the fine-print: “about 100 pages of text” … In any case, they called me “Dear Sir”, which is more than I usually get around here, so off to the library I’ll go – adjudicating. Currently, the volume is sitting on my deck at home, under heavy guard from three of Oliver’s Navy seals (for scale). Just for reference: though there is no size requirement for Navy seals (I checked) the average height is 5’10”, so I might have to reinforce my deck to hold the weight of all that paper.
\n\"\"<\/a>So, now that the new standard for theses is set: you seniors better get to work!
\n:-)<\/p>\n

P.S.
\nIf anyone is interested in the rock magnetic properties of soils from Western Karnataka – let me know. Also, if you can show me Western Karnataka on the map I’ll personally get you a bratwurst at the next McCookout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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