A Tumblr that crowdsources one-sentence summaries of undergraduate and graduate theses is going viral because misery loves company. Angela Frankel, a senior at Harvard College studying Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology, started “LOL My Thesis” in Dec. 2013 “as a means of procrastination from my own thesis” (as you can probably tell).
Our favorites so far:
- “If you want to lose your faith in God, study religion.”—Theology, Boston College
- “I spent 372 pages describing what Kafka meant by everything he didn’t write.”—Humanities, University of Louisville
- “I made a movie and a cat was in the movie and the cat wouldn’t look at the camera so I yelled at the cat.”—Film, Northwestern University
- “Your final is to fix this failing business. Normally they would pay you, but we’ve volunteered your services. If you fail, they lose everything; no pressure.”—Marketing, Arizona State University
- “I killed a bunch of zebrafish embryos and shot lasers at them to figure out where a protein was. It’s everywhere.”—Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University
- “My invasive fruit flies won’t have sex for me.”—Botany/Entomology, New College of Florida
- “Crack was indeed whack.”—History, Columbia University
- “Numbers either exist, or they don’t. Depends on how you look at it.”—Philosophy, Reed College
- “Basically, Beyoncé can do anything.”—History/Study of Women and Gender, Smith College