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The orange site manages to make me hate academics more many users post about how they’ve spent _decades_ writing a thesis.
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Imagine having to baby this literal adult r-slur just to get him tf out of your department.
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not heroic, you literally scrambled to clean up a mess that you KNEW YOU WERE MAKING with the help of an actual adult literally babysitting you like a 14yr old that wont do his math assignments
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Can you imagine posting this big publicly. Like holy frick, the only time I cry is at like funerals.
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And the fact that a presumably passable thesis was produced in a week. No hope for academia if a weeks work is the standard.
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I can hardly think of any bsc thesis that would take more than a week to write.
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I think you're too harsh on that one, for subjects where there is an actual objective basis to measure against, like sciences, it could take significant time I imagine. Same goes for those where there is some practical/research component (unless you make everything up lmao)
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Yeah sure if there is a time factor to your research sure, but the combined work put into it hardly reaches 50-80 hours.
I'm also talking about like undergrad and maaaybe grad school depending on the subject. I know burgers don't have to write a thesis for that and honestly it's so useless I have no idea why we do it.
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I probably took a bit more than that broken up over many adderall induced sessions of hyperfocus over 3 months. I did have to revamp the whole thing halfway through, though.
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lol of course we'd have phds on rdrama.
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Lol no the comment I was responding to was about a bsc. PhD students save their addies for their qualifying exams.
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I love the profanity filter so much
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Why do they have so little self control?
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Literally me at every university project.
(except the crying and begging part)
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God darn that's beyond pathetic. So much in fact that I think this person might have issues
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