You know how this works by now. It’s Friday, so we’re recommending a Twitter account for you to follow. It’s #FollowFriday. This week, @lolmythesis, a genius account that summarizes years of academic research and writing into one geniusly oversimplified sentence.
Who she is:
LOL My Thesis is run by a woman named Angela Frankel. In the about page of the account’s Tumblr, she describes it this way:
Initially intended as a means of procrastination from my own thesis, this blog has documented some of the stress, hilarity, and chaos associated with undergraduate (and some post-graduate) theses. Enjoy!
We love a little procrastination here at Geekosystem. We also love academic research AND oversimplification. It’s like Angela Frankel combined all of our favorite things into one genius idea.
Why you should follow:
A few times a day (usually) you get to see what someone poured years of study and effort into, but then you also get to see it cut down to one sentence that makes you wonder if it was really all worth it. It could come across as a little mean-spirited, but considering the source is a person dealing with her own frustrations with working on a thesis we’re willing to forgive that and just enjoy it. And we do. A lot.
Great tweets:
Here are some of our favorite examples of what makes @lolmythesis so great.
Sometimes people think they’re helping a cause when they really aren’t. Fail better. – Philosophy, Oregon… http://t.co/I0hDuD6XnQ
— lol my thesis (@lolmythesis) January 10, 2014
We cannot be certain about anything. I’m pretty sure….. – Philosophy, Bryn Mawr College http://t.co/77PFVIU1V3
— lol my thesis (@lolmythesis) January 9, 2014
You can show how people talk by using DIFFERENT FONTS. – Communication and Culture, Ryerson University and… http://t.co/B1O7TT9Hl2
— lol my thesis (@lolmythesis) January 10, 2014
trees don’t respond well to being rubbed in with vaseline. – forest and nature conservation, wageningen… http://t.co/1bwnWK8OPH
— lol my thesis (@lolmythesis) January 10, 2014
Motivating little ignorant fuckers to learn English with literary texts they don’t give a shit about. -… http://t.co/OjvN2twdSp
— lol my thesis (@lolmythesis) January 10, 2014
Nuns are scary. – History, University of Oxford ‘The Threat of the Convent: Seduction and imprisonment in… http://t.co/mwEDgTyvhS
— lol my thesis (@lolmythesis) January 9, 2014
Corals have good bacteria, but they don’t like it when seaweed gets all up in their business – Marine… http://t.co/5CtPZFZNWz
— lol my thesis (@lolmythesis) January 8, 2014
(via @lolmythesis)
- We wonder what Dr. Ben Tippett’s thesis was. We bet it was great
- Follow @SarcasticRover to learn about Martian Santa and more
- And seriously: @BabbyTips is real great
