As we returned to Argentina, I started seriously to work towards a doctoral degree under the direction of Professor Stoppani, the Professor of Biochemistry at the Medical School.
Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.
I think fondly of the rabbit holes I disappeared down when I researched papers for history and English because I couldn't find quite what I was looking for, or because I had to go through so much material to find examples for my thesis.
The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences of the latter are scanty and occasional.
I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons!
I'm not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation.
The first time I set out to find George F. Kennan, in 1982, I had just turned 21, begun my final semester at Princeton University and noticed with astonishment that the senior thesis deadline had crept to within four months.
Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
Mostly, research is much more fun than the actual writing.
I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.
Most scientific problems are defined by the question of whether a graduate student can study it for his thesis.
I decided to go to the London School of Economics to write my thesis for MIT, under James Meade, Nobelist with Bertil Ohlin in 1977.
Following Rice, I went to Caltech for a Ph.D in physics, without any strong idea of what I wanted to do for a thesis topic.
