I would have to believe that writing a senior thesis on a typewriter made it SO MUCH easier to gauge and literally feel your progress!
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April 3, 2009...12:08 am
The ghost of thesis past
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I would have to believe that writing a senior thesis on a typewriter made it SO MUCH easier to gauge and literally feel your progress!
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October 2, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Oh, I don’t know. I didn’t have a printer as a freshman (the Apple //e alone cost $1478 with one floppy drive and a green screen), so I wrote most of my papers on the typewriter. I was so happy to switch to the computer for papers, it meant I could REVISE, instead of writing everything as a one-draft wonder.
I look at dissertations written in the 1950s. My late uncle (Columbia GS’55, precepted at P’ton in ‘56) paid for his to be typed by his father’s secretary. My housemate’s father (English GS’59), I looked up his dissertation once at Firestone. It was typed on 4-5 different typewriters. IIRC, his son said that he distributed his final draft out among several friends, who each typed a portion, and that was normal, so you didn’t get tired/careless just retyping your own thing yet again.