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Thesis Quotes
What it feels like to finally defend your big idea.
Long before the diploma, there's a thesis: a chemistry supervisor in 1920s Prague, a 185-page paper on plants, a study of one favorite novelist. These quotes come from people who lived that specific grind, the kind you'll also find in About quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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I first studied the effect of plants on humans for my Yale thesis… and it was a 185-page thesis, and luckily I got honors on it.
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When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all of the important female directors from Mexico. There were four. That was it.
- Heroes
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I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.
- Mysterious
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My thesis project was to identify quasars, which are very distant, very energetic objects and still quite mysterious.
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My college senior thesis was going to be on the American private investigator.
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My thesis was on kinetics studies with the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase. When that was finished, I was granted a British Council Fellowship to work under the supervision of Malcolm Dixon.
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I have strengths, and I have weaknesses. I don't pretend to be able to write a great thesis or doctorate - I have no pretensions in that direction.
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