{"id":12669,"date":"2020-01-30T06:37:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T11:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=12669"},"modified":"2020-01-30T12:43:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T17:43:13","slug":"should-i-write-a-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/01\/30\/should-i-write-a-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I write a thesis?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"548\" height=\"455\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200130_0521582.jpg\" alt=\"Should I write a thesis? (Studying philosophy + biology B.A.)\" class=\"wp-image-12665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200130_0521582.jpg 548w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200130_0521582-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><figcaption>Should I write a thesis? (Studying philosophy + biology B.A.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some questions to ask yourself: is there a topic you&#8217;d really like to investigate in depth? do you have the time in your schedule senior year to do this and do it well? are you planning on graduate school or a job in academia? Being able to point to a well-executed and written  thesis, gives you an advantage. Also, talk with your major advisors about this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some questions to ask yourself: is there a topic you&#8217;d really like to investigate in depth? do you have the time in your schedule senior year to do this and do it well? are you planning on graduate school or a job in academia? Being able to point to a well-executed and written thesis, gives &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/01\/30\/should-i-write-a-thesis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Should I write a thesis?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[363,253],"class_list":["post-12669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","tag-double-majors","tag-senior-thesis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12678,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12669\/revisions\/12678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}