tl;dr

[vaskidmark]

http://angelafrankel.com/#395/tumblr

http://lolmythesis.com/

Even the most ardent academic must concede that there’s something darkly funny about devoting years of one’s life to a thesis question so abstruse that no one else had ever cared enough to ask it—and then answering it at such great length that few will ever care to read it.

Enter lolmythesis.com, a Tumblr started by a Harvard senior procrastinating on her own undergraduate thesis. The blog encourages fellow undergrad and graduate students to distill all their hard-won knowledge into a single sentence—a sort of self-mocking tl;dr of their years-long labor of love/hate.

"A Contextual Analysis of the English Grammer pre-Beowulf; or Mental Masturbation Over 374 Lines in 7 Fragments."  Moved me from graduating Cum Laudae to Magna Cum Laudae.  Thank goodness the college only catalogs thesii for 20 years unless they get published in a peer-reviewed journal.  Unless someone screwed up it is now lost to the ages.

What was your masterpiece?

stay safe.

[Boomhauer]

What was your masterpiece?

"*expletive deleted*ck murdering commies and the asslickers who love them" Made multiple heads explode. Got an A from my very conservative AK owning professor.

[Devonai]

My senior thesis was an evaluation of the history of NYC gun control laws vis a vis the Bernhard Goetz incident.  I'm pretty sure it's on a hard drive in a cardboard box in my closet somewhere.  I think I got an A-.

[AZRedhawk44]

The political influences exerted by japanese martial arts instructors upon japan from the tokugawa shogunate through hirohito's rein, and the influence of SCAP occupation upon japanese martial arts.

[K Frame]

What was my masterpiece?

Spelling grammar correctly.


Actually, it was an indepth look at the Cuban Missile Crisis for my senior major seminar.

Was supposed to be 20 to 30 pages.

I thought my professor was going to strangle me when I turned in 104.