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- #47: Stress in Sports with Ben Schwartz '23, PsychologyBen used his thesis to examine connections between aggressive sports and stress.Reed community members can read Ben's thesis, "Stress, Aggression, and Performance: The Effects of Daily Hassles on High-Aggression Athletics," online in the Electronic Theses Archive:https://rdc.reed.edu/i/6812806a-da94-42ff-9ea8-ca417f2cb8ff20 min
- #46: Knots and Unknots with Erika Beserra '22, MathematicsTake a circular hair tie and set it on a table. That's an "unknot". Pick it up, cut it, twist it into a knot and then reconnect the cut ends, and now you've got the kind of knot that mathematicians study. Follow along as Erika takes us on a brief journey into her thesis focusing on knot theory.Reed community members can read Erika's thesis, “Khovanov Homology: Putting Pants on Knots,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive:https://rdc.reed.edu/i/e4688b4e-d55b-46c4-a30e-0ebab9dd393c19 min
- #45: Crip Time in Higher Ed with Hannah Card '22, SociologyAlbert talked with Hannah about her thesis exploring how students with chronic illnesses manage their time while in college by studying Reed students.Reed community members can read Hannah's thesis, "'Resting time is not wasted time': Chronic Illness, Time Perspectives, and The Reed Student Experience," online in the Electronic Theses Archive:https://rdc.reed.edu/i/dcae56eb-a20f-4ba4-825d-e6568c39b0b122 min
- #44: Crime Fighting Time with Will Knight '22, EnglishDive into comic book studies and some great advice on how to approach the thesis with Will in Albert's first interview for the podcast.Reed community members can read Will's thesis, “Extended Gutters: Sequencing Space and the Narrative Power of the Panel in Watchmen,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive:https://rdc.reed.edu/i/8e6a6bc4-a8d9-4f02-85c1-7f5dbb5e6d3423 min
- #43: Assertions with Joseph Puglisi Clark '22, PhilosophyThis is a podcast, and that was an assertion. Joseph spent a year exploring the nature of assertions like this in his thesis (which was mostly written after midnight, apparently).This is also the last interview conducted by last year's student producer, Amelie. Thank you Amelie for all the work you did for the podcast, and for helping us get to where we are.Reed community members can read Joseph's thesis, “Asserting as Committing,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive:https://rdc.reed.edu/i/9e17a67d-63a5-4b51-b128-a357ecc8ff9f17 min
- #42: Studying Borges with Natalya Hill '22, ReligionNatalya and Amelie talk about how Natalya found Reed and became a religion major. This is also our last episode of the semester. We'll be back after winter break with more interviews from the class of 2022.Reed community members can read Natalya's thesis, “The Ineffable Center: Islam in Borges's Intertextual Universes,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive:https://rdc.reed.edu/i/75acb3ac-1447-437e-9631-0dab55a0a1ea18 min
- #41: Understanding Climate Graphs with Rishi Krishnamurthy '22, PsychologyWhy do two people look at the same graph and walk away with different interpretations? Rishi spent a year looking into some reasons for why this happens when people are looking at climate data.Reed community members can read Rishi's thesis, “Overt Attention and Cognitive Ability Explain Climate Graph Interpretation,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive:https://rdc.reed.edu/i/38faede2-2f0a-4aee-82e3-12613409ef9628 min
- #40: Taiwanese Political Parties with Seamus Boyle '22, International Policy StudiesSeamus's thesis focuses on the fall of Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT) party, and the impacts this party has had in Seamus's own family background.Reed community members can read Seamus's thesis, “The Blue Sky Falls, the White Sun Sets: a Study of the Decline of the Kuomintang,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive:https://rdc.reed.edu/i/6fa7ed1b-3872-4bfe-b065-3ca03c110b2f22 min
- #39: Virtue Ethics and Restorative Justice with Louise de Picciotto '22Louise talks about learning to accept criticism, and how an influential class got her interested in Aristotle.Reed community members can read Louise's thesis, “An Aristotelian Argument for Restorative Justice: How We Can Use Forgiveness Instead of Punitive Punishment to Heal from Wrongdoings,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive:https://rdc.reed.edu/i/cc6db005-0de9-4fe6-8119-928f6433a60417 min
- #38: Teaching About Climate Change with Kieran Wharton '22, Environmental StudiesWhen Kieran learned that high school chemistry teachers reportedly teach climate change at the lowest rate among STEM teachers, he decided to study this for his thesis. You won't learn much about climate change in this episode, but you will learn about Kieran's learning process as he discovered how education research is done (lots of analyzing of interview transcripts).Reed community members can read Kieran's thesis, “Incorporation of Climate Change Topics in High School Chemistry: Teacher Practices, Beliefs, and Barriers to Implementation,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive:https://rdc.reed.edu/i/71dbcb98-442d-4e09-95c9-1a28f5addc7f21 min
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“Burn Your Draft” is a podcast exploring the year-long senior thesis experience at Reed College, an independent liberal arts and sciences college in Portland, Oregon. Each episode showcases a senior…
or recent graduate and interviews them about their thesis: what is it, why did they do it, and what comes next. This podcast is a joint production of Reed students, staff, and alumni, and was made possible by a gift from Seth Paskin '90. New episodes released every other week during the academic year. Episodes may contain explicit language and may deal with sensitive topics. The views, information, or opinions expressed on this podcast are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of Reed College.