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lol my common core

lol my thesis
What would Bill Gates write about his CCSSI investment? “I get to spend over $200 Million for standards adoption, implementation and PR campaigns and call it a performance about being the nation’s superintendent.”

Imagine that you are a student studying for your doctorate.  You are in the midst of writing your thesis which demands an extraordinary amount of time and effort.   How would you explain your thesis in one sentence?  Can such an exhaustive process be explained in our twitter obsessed world?   From  “Lol My Thesis” Showcases Painfully Hilarious Attempts to Sum up Years of Academic Work in One Sentence:


A true fact about the thesis stage of an advanced degree: Whatever the academic field, whether writing a fifty page bachelor’s or master’s thesis or 250 plus page doctoral dissertation, at some point, you will need to winnow your argument down to an abstract summary of a couple succinct paragraphs. Then, one inevitably finds—when riding elevators with colleagues and mentors, talking to relatives over holiday dinners, justifying one’s existence to friends and acquaintances—that the whole damned thing needs to somehow reduce to one intelligible sentence or two. It’s all anyone has the patience for, honestly, and it saves you the trouble of trying to reconstruct complex arguments for people who won’t understand or care about them and who generally only asked out of politeness anyway.

But how, how, to cram years of research, agony, turmoil, crushing failure and soaring lol my common core | Missouri Education Watchdog: