Burn Your Draft

Burn Your Draft is a podcast exploring the year-long senior thesis experience at Reed College through interviews with current students and alumni.

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‘#82: Adapting to New Majors and New Models with Alyssa Gorkin '24, Psychology’ is on #SoundCloud https://t.co/7ga2BJl1Tz

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‘#81: Memorials and Cultural Memory with Emilie Kelly '25, Anthropology’ is on #SoundCloud https://t.co/EzGuqbMHBZ

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‘#80: Discovering Strychnine in the Lab and in the Archive with Lucas Forshee '25, Chemistry’ is on #SoundCloud https://t.co/9ZHFcPp9za

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‘#79: Bleakness and Hope in McCarthy’s Blood Meridian with Caleb Stanco '25, English’ is on #SoundCloud https://t.co/haaSgmXEIn

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‘#78: A Horticultural Approach to Restorative Justice with Rhiannon Weakly '24, Psychology’ is on #SoundCloud https://t.co/Ol1mu999R4

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‘#77: Student Movements in Lebanon with Lucas Allam '25, History’ is on #SoundCloud https://t.co/r8aH8ZvzvM

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‘#76: What Makes a Good Birth? with Liz Organ '24, Anthropology’ is on #SoundCloud https://t.co/Xw7f3j1G39

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#75: Aquaculture Adaptations with Hannah Goodman ’24, Sociology is all about aquaculture and Maine https://t.co/mSrHp6dRtv

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Claire wrote a creative thesis about a college that eats people. Listen to our interview with her below
https://t.co/qdw2NIu9CP

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Henry was an English major whose thesis journey took a few unexpected turns.

Listen here: https://t.co/WY03keGLxC

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Arianna focused on the impacts of the closure of a Walmart in her hometown of Albuquerque for her thesis in the anthropology department. Listen now:

https://t.co/qdzBOsqIbc
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Amelie was the second student producer for Burn Your Draft, working with us from 2021–22, and it was a delight to get to talk to her. Learn more about her experience researching biochemistry at Reed below.

https://t.co/vaFNwLiElU
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Emma’s economics department thesis explored the effect that Tony awards have on the consumer demand for Broadway shows.
https://t.co/IpUWpG50Go
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Ocean shares his thesis experience with us, which was focused on studying writers from the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean, especially Édouard Glissant, and tells us why he thinks poetry and art is important.
https://t.co/15V9xsbMua
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This week we get to hear from the third student host of our podcast, Juno Kerelis '24. Thanks for coming back Juno! Listen below on Soundcloud or anywhere you find podcasts.
https://t.co/HDnz94jxN3
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Solid state chemistry! A novel form of an antibiotic! Snake poop! And more! Listen to our interview with Josie Bicknell '24 now.
https://t.co/YVaCnqzsZE

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In honor of Halloween BYD is venturing into the dark halls of the female gothic with English grad, Jordan Kappler '24.
https://t.co/FHtNZmLqQu
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Aroon combined his interests in sustainability and aviation to examine the effects that a carbon tax might have on full service airline carriers and low cost airline carriers (it didn't look good for the low cost carriers).
https://t.co/58HURviGvJ
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Learn a bit more about federal efforts to repatriate Native American human remains and cultural items with Courtland as she tells us about writing her Anthropology department thesis on NAGPRA.
https://t.co/2kq8K15MPL
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He Bai ’24 tells us about how she chose math and statistics as her fields at Reed, what drew her to Reed in the first place, and how the Squidward Constant came to be in her thesis. https://t.co/BulgbsSoZH…
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