Yesterday, hundreds of seniors turned in their theses–and promptly went to Princeton Sports Bar.
Check out these photos of the Woody Woo seniors splashing around in the Woody Woo fountain in (drunken) post-thesis glee! Video to come.
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It’s that time of year again! Seniors are growing meaner, and sadder, by the minute, as thesis deadlines loom. As always, Triangle Copy Center is ready to bind the product of your year of toiling away on the Firestone C-floor! (If you can get it in, that is.)
Take a look:
Oh wait, what’s that?
One of these things is not like the others.
If you were thinking of tearing through your thesis in a carrel on the Firestone C-Floor before 3 pm, don’t. For the next few months, construction will be “loud and disruptive.”
A senior sent in this tip with a note: “Just in time for thesis season.”
The ear plugs are thoughtful, though.
This is Paul Krugman autographing something. (source: Nobelprize.org)
If writing that paper isn’t hard enough, try working the phrase “I smoke crack rocks” into it.
That’s what Gabriel Parent of Carnegie Mellon University did for the PhD Challenge, deftly inserting the sentence into a peer-reviewed, academic paper published in Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology. (See the paper here.)
His reward:
- One box of chicken-flavored Maruchan Ramen Noodle Soup
- One pack of leather elbow patches
- The Official 2010 PhD Challenge Winning Paper Award Certificate
- One Autographed 8×10 Photograph of Nobel Prize Laureate Paul Krugman
But the PhD Challenge is having a tough time getting that autographed photo of Paul Krugman for Gabriel, which is where The Ink comes in.
Princeton, can anyone get this guy an autographed photo of Paul Krugman? Let the PhD Challenge know!
(h/t The Awl)
This will be my mantra, come April.
I don’t know about you all, but I had my first thesis stress dream two nights ago and I’m still shaking in my boots.
But with just over a week left until winter break and formals just around the corner, I’d like to think that things aren’t looking so bleak after all.
Just, please, no one tell Dean Malkiel about this…
On March 28, an anonymous senior — fittingly anonymous, I should add, because in a way, he is every senior – set out to write a thesis. His page count was zero, but his hopes were high: “This is gonna be an adventure!” he exclaimed. His deadline? Wednesday, April 7.
Thesis Pieces is his story. And I promise you — it’s the second best blog you’ll read all day.
We follow the writer from mundanity (”Can’t write because my pen died. Page count: 0/100″) to insanity (”I figured out a way to solve all my thesis woes! All I need to do is figure out a way to send a cyborg killing machine back in time!”). We laugh when he laughs, we cry when he cries.
We don’t, however, sleep when he sleeps: “I slept two hours last… sleeping time,” he confesses. ”On a bench in Firestone.”
But from our comparatively well-rested perch we urge our hero onwards, willing him the strength to vanquish that greatest enemy of all: the ever-ticking clock.
Too tired to work.
Happy Easter, Inkblots! For those out there still crankin’ away on that thesis, we bring your Part II of a series on the wackiest senior thesis titles we could find – and some bunnies that look like they’ve been in Firestone for too long.
“They Might Be Giants: An Analysis Of Coca-Cola and Pepsi’s Fragile Dominance in the Soft Drink Industry,” 78 pages
“TRASH,” 119 pages
“So You Want to be a Rock & Roll Star? An Application of the Superstar Hypothesis to the Popular Music Market,” 135 pages
“Books are Good; I Want To Be A Doctor: Napster and the Dawn of Online Digital Music Distribution,” 60 pages
“[Insert Funny Title Here] Exploring and Explaining Meta-Humor,” 55 pages
I have become completely nocturnal.
“Me Funny, You Pretty: Gender, Humor, and Attraction in Internet Personal Ads,” 38 pages
“One Hundred Years and Still Kicking: A History of the Princeton Triangle Club,” 117 pages
image source: flickr.com
There are, I hear, still quite a few people in the basement of Firestone. For all you woeful souls out (down?) there still churnin’ out a thesis, we’ve dug through nearly 60,000 records to present you with a list of our favorite senior theses titles. We’ll throw up a few of these “witty,” strange, and/or totally preposterous gems every few days to keep ya’ll inspired (or just totally incredulous).
It's the home stretch
“Eat This Thesis: Food Imagery in Pop Art,” 87 pages
“The Fish Meets the Tiger: Frank Gehry Builds at Princeton,” 104 pages
“Why Bad Sex is Like Torture: The Ethics and Metaphysics of Embodiment,” 89 pages
“Life’s a Bitch and Then You Die, Slowly, Painfully, and Alone: Suicide in Modern and Contemporary Drama,” 91 pages
“Me & Myself: A Study of Fragmentation and Fulfillment in Sex and the City,” 117 pages
Hat tip to Sarah Schiff ‘10 and her “East Pyne family”
from princeton.edu
“This is Zach –”
“— and this is Willie, and to get started, can we have a suggestion of anything, anything at all!”
So began Zach & Willie, the theater-program thesis production of Zach Zimmerman ’10. For the first half of the show, Zimmerman and Willie Myers ’11 performed a series of improvised scenes based on the suggestion of one audience member. The word offered: “toothbrush.”
In the next moment, Zimmerman and Myers were two students shaving at the sink and discussing their big dates.
“We embrace whatever we feel the scene looks like, and come up with characters,” Zimmerman said. “It’s sort of organic in that sense. You’re building a reality.”
To read more, see the Princeton Alumni Weekly.