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Dissertation Haikus

JA September 13

The premise for this blog is pretty straightforward, just swap the word ‘dissertation’ for ‘thesis’:

Dissertations are long and boring. By contrast, everybody likes haiku. So why not write your dissertation as a haiku?

Well, why not indeed. The site has proven pretty popular, and the New Yorker’s Book Bench puts this down to the fact that ‘graduate-student writers are just like any other kind of writer in that they do want someone, anyone, to enjoy their work, regardless of how specialised or mind-numbingly dull the subject might be’.

Here’s a handful:

Thomas D. Gutierrez, University of California, on Physics, entitled ‘Higher Twist Contributions to Charm and Light Gluino Production'

Higher twist quanta

In hadronic wave functions –

 Summer’s gluinos?


Amanda Sikarskie, Michigan State University, on American Studies, entitled ‘The Quilt in the Age of Digital Reproduction'

Digital objects

such as quilts in virtual worlds

Future of folk art


Mary O'Connor, University of North Carolina, on ‘the effects of temperature on food webs using coastal marine plants and animals'

Hungry herbivores,
It’s warm; feel your tummies growl?
Graze down hot seaweed.


Sara Kosiba, Kent State, on ‘A Successful Revolt?: The Redefinition of Midwestern Literary Culture in the 1920s and 1930s'

Modernist thoughts of

Midwestern love and hatred

Where is home to me?


 

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by phill
15 Sep 09 at 14:50

Here's mine, try and figure out my major:

Long needles forming

in acidic conditions;

why do you grow so?

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