Thesis writing, what fun!

[Zkribbler]

Boddy - The 50,000 words was the maximum limit the Academic Senate put on undergrad papers. Yours comes in well within that limit.

[Kropotkin]

1500 words? That's just about four pages, that's nothing!

50,000 words doesn't seem that much considering it was written by a future minister at a time when higher education was less like mass production than it is now. Then again we don't know exacly how many words he used, maybe it was 50,000 pages.

[devilmunchkin]

i have no time..two jobs...17 hours of school....
i want to tell everyone to bug off!

[Agathon]

Man, you guys have it easy, how's this for masochism?

I have to write at least 250 pages and translate a whole stack of stuff from Greek before I even start writing the thesis (for those who've never done it, translating Greek is a painstakinglyslow process in which you spend most of your time flicking through what looks like a couple of phone books).

And learn French

And learn German (Achtung!)

Become familiar with all the major works of Aristotle..


But before all that I had to.

Complete a year's grad courses (6).

learn classical greek part time from scratch in 2 years (to an equivalent standard of a 4 year undergrad degree in Greek - i.e. basically do a degree on top of my other stuff).

Pass an exam in which you get 50 lines of Greek and a pencil and a piece of paper and nothing else (95% accuracy required - that's worse than Princeton requires for their program).

Read and take a 4 hour exam on the entire works of Plato (1808 pages) + 15 works of secondary literature.

Conduct an oral defence of the above exam.

Translate Plato's Sophist from Greek (the whole thing) and pass a 2 hour translation exam (no aids allowed). This exam takes place right after the 4 hour one.

Conduct an oral defence of the translation.

Yes, life sucks...


And, when we were small our Dads used to cut us up into small pieces and...

[axi]

Why the hell are you doing that? Are you trying to immigrate to Greece to become a philosophy proffessor in the university?

[axi]

I'm finished with mine!!!

The whole 113 pages...

Freedom at last!
Good luck to the rest of you!