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ON WRITING A THESIS WRITING my senior thesis has been a lowering cloud over me for four long months and will probably assume thunderstorm proportions by the end of four more long months. I am writing on The Physiography of New Mexico, with a bit of the history and present-day conditions of the Indians, Spanish-Americans and Anglos of New Mexico. Why I chose that subject I'm not exactly sure, since in all probability no one else is interested in the slightest degree in the physi- ography of New Mexico. Nevertheless, that much is done, so now all I can do is to spend long hours in libraries in a frantic search for material. I say frantic because I never seem to have quite enough long hours. The result is that I rush into my research in a mad frenzy trying to get a lot done in practically no time, and when I get through I'm not at all sure whether I'm gaining or losing ground. Such is the way that most students go about writing a thesis. Now it occurs to me that the solution to this problem is to take a year off from school and leisurely write a thesis. In this way I could spend a few days idly looking around the library becoming oriented to my new surroundings. When I actually did get down to work I wouldn't be distracted by suddenly noticing a picture on the Wall facing me that I had never seen before. I would also have plenty of time to read everything I Wanted to whether it had any direct bearing on my thesis or not. For instance, if I looked up New Mexico in an encyclopedia I might first run across the nervous system. Now I have always been a little curious and extremely vague about the nervous system so I could take time out right then to read up on it. Or if I looked up Indians and ran across India first, I could delve into the story of that mystery-shrouded country. Who knows what amusing or exciting tales I might find in an encyclopedia before I finally found what I was looking for? To me encyclopedias are the most intriguing of all books anyway. There seems to be nothing that these volumes of wisdom do not discuss. Every im- portant person and place are mentioned. You can read on any subject from the smelting of steel or refining of oil to the Headhunters of South America or the Eskimos of Alaska. You can find the story of Pelleas et Melisande with its unique atmospheric charm or the story of Pancho Villa with all his banditry. The Yucca plant, Wool, Whirligig Beetle, Wallpaper, Virgil, Vaccine Therapy, Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, Tweed, Tractors and Track and Field Sports are only a few of the many fascinating subjects I would like to have time to read about. However, I'm afraid I'll have to postpone that extensive reading. In the meantime I am plodding laboriously' through my research. The thing I object to most is having to jot down innumerable notes on everything I read. It always spoils the fun of reading for me. Besides it is very bad because it is habit- forming. As a result, I have come to depend so much upon notes that now I have to make a note on everything I want to remember for more than five minutes. I am slowly but surely losing all power of retaining facts of any kind. After the note-taking stage, I have to go through the process of selecting the material that is finally to go into the thesis. This in itself is a problem, although it never bothers me very much. I just go through my notes and the ones that strike my eye as being good points I set aside to use. Then comes the final writing. Since my work is never so good that I want it read by anyone, except the teacher, I type it myself, using the hunt and peck system. After eons of struggling with a machine, the manipulation of which is completely beyond me, I finally get the thesis to that half-finished stage in which I hand it in. Marsha I-Iatch, Form VI 102