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The A-Bomb Kid (And How’s Your Senior Thesis Going?)
Tuesday, 05 February 2013
by Oren Fliegelman
Seniors, here’s a thesis idea: how to build an operable atomic bomb. Although it was a junior term paper and not his senior thesis, John Aristotle Phillips ’78 did just that. A less than lackluster student and Tiger mascot, the physics major came across the paper idea as he was trying to think of ways
- Published in Alumni
Cluster Clutter
Thursday, 12 April 2012
by Abby Klionsky
Below is an example of the thesis-induced clutter that has been littering the Edwards basement for at least a couple months. I count more than forty books stacked every which way (some opened), plus a candy wrapper, an empty cup of Small World coffee, an empty Snapple jar, lots of loose sheets of paper, a
- Published in Academics
Beautiful Day in the Bubble
Thursday, 08 March 2012
by Abby Klionsky
Disclaimer: this post is intended for people who didn’t make it outside today (read: people who still have gastro, and seniors with looming thesis-draft deadlines). If you did go outside today–and enjoyed it–make sure you go outside tomorrow, too, because it’s supposed to be even nicer. We didn’t have much of a winter to complain
- Published in Goings On, Musings, Student Guides
And it begins!
Wednesday, 06 April 2011
by Angela Wu
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.
- Published in Goings On
Let’s hope that’s not a thesis
Friday, 01 April 2011
by Angela Wu
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?
- Published in Goings On
Firestone C-Floor Maybe Not the Best Place for Thesis Writing
Monday, 24 January 2011
by Angela Wu
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.
- Published in Goings On
Help this guy get an autographed photo of Paul Krugman
Thursday, 16 December 2010
by Angela Wu
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:
- Published in Fun, Princeton in the News
Things Could Be Worse…
Thursday, 09 December 2010
by Sarah Vitali
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
- Published in Fun
Write, Sleep, Blog
Monday, 05 April 2010
by David Walter
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.
- Published in Academics, The INKternet
Thesis Roundup, Part II
Sunday, 04 April 2010
by Ellen Shakespear
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
- Published in Goings On
Thesis Roundup, Part 1
Friday, 02 April 2010
by Ellen Shakespear
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
- Published in Goings On
IN PRINT: Zach and Willie create a thesis on the fly
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
by Angela Wu
“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
- Published in In Print