2009-05-17, 09:40 AM
Senyain Wrote:Your thesis has my participation, should you wish it. I'll be sending an e-mail shortly. I would prefer the interview be conducted over MSN, AIM, e-mail or Profil3, as I don't have Skype or for that matter know what it is. I'll try to be somewhat less harsh and critical of the community in the interview than I usually am, while still maintaining the philosophy I posted on your Profil3. I've actually been doing a bit of informal study of MS culture myself since joining, and comparing many of the entities (players, aspects of the community, forums, etc.) to real-world historical equivalents.
I'm rather interested in seeing the final result. In most U.S. colleges, a Master's thesis generally doesn't pass 25-30 pages, and 150 is generally reserved for a Ph.D. I was granted the opportunity to skip writing a thesis in exchange for doing the statistical data analysis for a local elementary school's state assessment results and making recommendations on which areas to improve/techniques to use. I opted to take that opportunity. I didn't mind writing (in fact, my thesis was 17 pages through as of fall semester), but I had a crapload of writing this semester in my other courses, mostly in the form of 20 to 40 slide Powerpoints and 20 to 30 page unit plans. I'm just glad the semester's over and I still have my 4.0.
By the way, you don't mind if I cite you in the credits to the two all-jobs videos as being bloody awesome and advertise your thesis in them, do you?
haha So you want to use the thesis as a platform for your own videos, eh? =P Actually, I'm coming up with a whole unique set of questions for you, mister! And I'll definitely be wanting to incorporate your data. Beats having to crunch all those numbers myself - let alone whether I'd have the patience to do it all! haha
Interesting that you have an option in your program like that. Things are a bit different in Canada with respect to Social Anthropology programs. From what I hear, in the States you can go straight into a PhD after an undergraduate degree, and if you drop out, you receive a terminal MA. I think they're trying to phase out the MA here too, but as it stands, at least in my university anyway, it's one year's worth of courses and then one year to write up and defend the thesis.
Congrats on your 4.0! You are definitely working hard to keep that up!