"It's a moment of reckoning when you give away a thesis, and you can't change it anymore," said Justin M. Krebs '00. "You have to come to terms with the fact that the process actually ends."

Although Katheryn M. Hayes '00, who wrote about the periodical "The Little Review," said she really enjoyed her topic and wished she could do more with it, most concentrators could not have been happier to get rid of theirs.

"I never want to hear that piece again. I'm so sick of it that I don't think I can stomach [the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra's] performance of it," said Alice H. S. Farmer '00, who wrote about Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring," which will be performed this Saturday in Sanders Theatre.

Now that his thesis is done, Matthew R. Hubbard '00, who examined the '70s television show "All in the Family," said that he plans to watch a lot of TV, but that his television viewing probably will not include "All in the Family."

Despite the stress of the final thesis crunch, concentrators praised the early deadline. Most senior theses are due in the middle of March, and some are not due until April.

"I couldn't have been happier," said Emily R. Von Kohorn '00. "I would have had the same crunch time no matter what. It's nice to get it done."

"I can't imagine having it hanging over my head any longer," said Cathrin B. Bauer '00, who wrote about Thomas Mann's short story "Blood of the Walsungs."