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...more practical in our career choices. Oxford acknowledges a certain amount of specialization initially, but is trying to fight the tide of careerism in the long-run. Strangely enough, the school that allows undergraduates to study business refuses to erect an edifice designated exclusively for that topic, and the school that discourages pre-professionalism among undergraduates is home to a "B-school" with the most majestic of campuses...
...like a poor undergraduate section, with everyone putting in his or her two cents just for the sake of talking. Instead, it became a real discussion, with professors building on the points of undergraduates and vice versa. Everyone left that room with new thoughts about the dissertation topic. It revealed an intellectual side of Harvard that undergraduates rarely...
Third, and perhaps most important, I turned in my thesis last Friday. When I began the process last spring, I was interested in my topic of a southern California architect cast as a historical Progressive, but I was not looking forward to all the research. And, as expected, I did not revel in every one of the hundreds of hours I spent poring over books, articles, and archives...
...subject of the South's rising political power was the topic of a panel discussion at the ARCO Forum...
...factors will help you to survive the thesis-writing experience: a good advisor and close friends who are also enduring the misery of having to write 60, 80 or more pages about some arcane subject. For those of you who are under the delusion that you have found the topic which will carry you through months of writing, no matter how scintillating your topic seems to be at first, it will eventually seem stale and insufferable...