Thesis
After Submitting Theses, Seniors Defend their Findings
With the stress of submitting a senior thesis behind them, some students now face a new challenge of presenting and defending their findings to faculty and peers.
Theses Submitted, Seniors Excited to Leave the Library
Members of the Class of 2016 who submitted their senior theses said they are looking forward to spending their newfound free time away from libraries and looming deadlines.
Seniors Reflect on Their Thesis Experiences
As thesis deadlines rapidly approach, Harvard seniors reflected on the intellectual challenges associated with tackling massive projects and the struggle to balance regular coursework and writing.
How to Spot a Thesising Senior
We’re now in the home stretch of the year. We await the coming of spring, which will probably arrive by late May if we’re lucky. But also approaching very quickly (or slowly depending on who you are) are the deadlines for senior theses. Of course not all seniors will be trading in their social lives for some quality time with their laptop in the library this semester. In fact, there is quite a sharp distinction between your studious, stressed out, sleep deprived senior working on a thesis, and your checked out, never stressed non-thesising senior who seemingly never leaves the Dhall. Two very different breeds of senior who do not take being mixed up lightly. We’re here to help you spot the difference.
Seniors Present Research at Weatherhead Center
After spending the summer researching around the world, 17 seniors presented their findings at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs’ undergraduate thesis conference last Thursday and Friday.
Pavić in Process
I’d been told to “swim” in the intellectual environment, to identify with the author and his sources, rather than scoop out what I wanted with my usual external and surgical precision.
Creative Writing Theses
Twenty seniors are pursuing creative writing theses through the English department this year, double the number of students who wrote a creative writing thesis in 2013.
Number of Creative Thesis Writers Doubles
Twenty seniors are currently working on creative theses—double the number of students who wrote them in 2013.
Moiya A.S. McTier
Moiya McTier is a joint concentrator in two of the most different fields from one another: Astrophysics and Folklore & Mythology.
For Off-Cycle Seniors, Thesis-Writing Concludes
Most Harvard seniors edit, toil over, and finally turn in their theses in a communal flurry in the weeks leading up to spring break and Housing Day each spring. But for the College’s off-cycle seniors, the affair is less standardized and a bit more lonely, they say.
