Comments on: Video: ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ seniors celebrate the end of thesis with a kiss-and-tell ritual /news/2015/04/02/video-for-bates-seniors-honors-thesis-ends-with-a-kiss-and-tell-ritual/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 21:31:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Jay Burns /news/2015/04/02/video-for-bates-seniors-honors-thesis-ends-with-a-kiss-and-tell-ritual/#comment-154808 Fri, 03 Apr 2015 16:38:06 +0000 /news/?p=93507#comment-154808 In reply to Don Ulin.

Don, that’s a such good point. I adjusted the text to be more accurate. – Jay Burns

]]> By: Jim Noone '92 /news/2015/04/02/video-for-bates-seniors-honors-thesis-ends-with-a-kiss-and-tell-ritual/#comment-154787 Fri, 03 Apr 2015 14:57:18 +0000 /news/?p=93507#comment-154787 This sounds like a fine ritual, and one that avoids the pitfalls of the old. As many of us were rushing to deliver our “4 bound copies” in the spring of 92, at least two slipped in the mud and sent their precious theses flying through the air… to land with splats in the bog that was the lawn of the administration building.

]]> By: Don Ulin /news/2015/04/02/video-for-bates-seniors-honors-thesis-ends-with-a-kiss-and-tell-ritual/#comment-154781 Fri, 03 Apr 2015 14:43:07 +0000 /news/?p=93507#comment-154781 How encouraging that students continue to carry on and update old traditions, adapting them to the changing world. But it seems sad at least and maybe insulting (except that it was obviously not intentional) to refer to the completion of students’ honors theses as “the beginning of the end of their academic career.” Surely most of these students are going on to graduate school and perhaps to long and illustrious academic careers. Remember that the final ceremony marking the completion of an undergraduate education is called a “commencement,” not a “conclusion.”

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