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"I love it," said William S. Seybold '99, who wrote his thesis on a revolutionary opposition group to the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. "Everyone is going to write his thesis at the last minute. It's nice to do it ahead of time."
Kevin R. Amer '99 was one senior with a last-minute thesis traumas. "I made three trips to Kinko's, but they kept screwing up the copies. It is a maddening experience when you think you're done, but then you're not."
Delage had bigger problems, though. "Three weeks before it was due, my computer mysteriously broke into pieces," she said. "I had to use a borrowed computer to finish the thesis, and I had no printer."
But her thesis nightmare doesn't stop there. "Then, 72 hours before the due date, I fractured my wrist at the gym and have been typing with a cast all weekend," Delage added.
Other thesis writers have more immediateengagements. Delage said that her roommates haveplanned a celebratory Boston dinner to commemorateher achievement.