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impendia on June 19, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: MIT professor's hack to recruit students

A friend of mine put a $20 bill in his university library's copy of his thesis. AFAIK it's still there.

mdonahoe on June 19, 2011 | [–]

I am writing my masters thesis now. I know only my 3 readers and my dad will ever read it. A strange tradition

klbarry on June 20, 2011 | [–]

I suppose the majority of thesis' are completed for the creator's benefit, not the world's.

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