So if you’re going back and forth on whether to take on an honors thesis, check out our tips on making sure it’s really for you.Good reasons to write an honors thesis There are plenty of reasons to write an honors thesis, but let’s be real – some are better than others.
“It was kind of impossible for my adviser and me to not to become friends,” says Beatrice Kim, who recently graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in psychology.
“He coached me through my panic and crisis of wanting to change research topics, and was really a mentor to me.” You’ll be working one-on-one with your faculty adviser, and chances are, you’ll come out with an even stronger relationship and a mentor whose help will extend past your graduation.
Repeat after me: you have to be interested in your thesis. Taking on a thesis when you’re not passionate or curious about the subject matter will turn the process into an unbearable chore.
Chances are, your shoulders will already be piled high with obligations you’re not excited about – last-minute classes you need to take in order to graduate, the dreaded job search, grad school applications… The last thing you need is another project (especially one so large) that makes you groan.
That was definitely the case for Beatrice, who scored a job on her faculty adviser’s recommendation.
But don’t just think of the post-grad benefits of this relationship.
“Simply put, you will be smarter,” says Gary Alan Miller, the former senior assistant dean of academic advising at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
“The depth of work required will truly help you process your world differently.” We’ve all heard of the elusive post-grad “real world” and have joked about how college has left us woefully unprepared for it.
Remember the good old days of college, when the most important decisions you had to make were things like what classes to take, who to sit by on the first day and whether or not to blow off your psych lecture… Alright, so maybe the early years had a bit more weight than that, but when you have to decide whether or not to write an honors thesis, those decisions seem like child’s play.
Now, you face a new, more daunting question: Do you want to dedicate much of your final year in college to grueling hours of research and writing a lengthy project of your own devising?
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