This cool-as-all-hell undergrad I know who works the library desk at the main library on campus was bitching to me last night about how to graduate with a Classics major -- this is apart from honors standing! -- you're required to be in a senior-year seminar and write a 30-60 page research paper. She's kind of ticked, since she says it eats up her time and most people's Greek and Latin might just now be getting to the decent stage, in the best of cases.
Anyhow, though, not since she thinks she can write a revolutionary paper (which she thinks she won't) or because she wants to know something about Stoicism (which she does), she's decided to write on Marcus Aurelius's Meditations and his advice for dealing with irritating people, since it's interesting and she says she needs help working on that as a person. "Plus," she was like, "maybe it'll help me deal with the people in my seminar who are preparing to make a major contribution to scholarship. They annoy the hell out of me."
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Yeah--you often get the feeling that most undergrads don't really have a thesis in them, and yet they are forced to do one. Most would be better off with a few extra courses instead.
That's what she was saying.
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