# Reducing a college thesis to 1 sentence

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reducing-a-college-thesis-to-1-sentence/677904>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 4, 2014, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reducing-a-college-thesis-to-1-sentence/677904 "2014-01-04T21:13:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reducing-a-college-thesis-to-1-sentence/677904/61 "2014-01-10T17:52:14Z")

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> [@lazybratsche](#):
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> I’ll get back to you on the PhD thesis. But I’m hoping it will be “The part of a signalling protein that gets chopped off isn’t always chopped off and is more important than everyone thinks.”

Ha ha. I can remember having hope as a PhD student. Good times…good times.

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**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reducing-a-college-thesis-to-1-sentence/677904/62 "2014-01-10T18:55:30Z")

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“John Henry Cardinal Newman was super famous and his _Apologia Pro Vita Sua_ was super popular, but I have no idea why and I hate this topic.”

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