Because Who Has Time To Read An Abstract?

Miles Klee is delighted by the tumblr LOL My Thesis, where students share bite-sized summaries of their scholarship:

A young lady of the history and gender studies departments at Smith, for example, delivered hard proof of this claim: “Basically, Beyoncé can do anything.” A cognitive scientist at Boston University, meanwhile, discovered that people “don’t like electrodes stuck to their head while you flash epilepsy-inducing lights at them.” As banal and depressing as these synopses seem, there are also plenty of profound statements to mull over. An student of English at the University of Victoria summed up an immersive literary experience in a fairly incredulous tone: “You can write a 120-page thesis on a 119-page book.” …

Thankfully, for the doggedly curious among us, some posts now include a link to the actual thesis. We just wish that were the case for one brave individual’s treatise on dinosaur poop.

Update from a reader:

LOL My Thesis is OK, but there’s a more refined version that’s existed for years: Dissertation Haiku. I think you have to work a little to get a haiku with more than 140 characters.