Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on.
“Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.”
“A manufacturing district... sends out, as it were, suckers into all its neighbourhood.”