Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Meditation On The Usefulness of Thesis

One of my closest friends just finished his thesis. A big congrats on the momentous occasion! He sent an e-mail informing his friends of this achievement and ended the announcement on a very true note:

It is currently printing on archival paper and it will be bound tomorrow and sent to a distant archive...to never be read :)

I'm sure in S.'s case someone will read it and use it. But for the most part his right most thesis never get used, i know since i worked in a archives full of them. (Side note, i was actually filing a thesis on the effects of marijuana from the sixties...i found it useful and fascinating.)

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