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Colin S. Kelly ’05, who wrote his History and Science thesis about the emergence of cosmology as a scientific discipline in the late 1960s, ran into a last minute crisis.
A week before his due date, Kelly came across an old dissertation in his field that “essentially refuted the foundational assumption” of his thesis, he says.
Although he created a group on thefacebook.com called “I’ve Spent a Year Working On My Thesis Only To Discover That I’m Wrong,” he was able to incorporate the counterargument into his thesis.
When Abigail L. Fee ’05 had to throw out 40 pages of her thesis about family planning in Ho, Ghana at her advisor’s request, the revision didn’t go smoothly.
Even without significant setbacks, senior thesis writers often struggle to meet their own high expectations.