Are you still interested in the subject on which you completed your dissertation?

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I have been browsing bookshops and found a new book about a lesser known author who featured heavily in my undergraduate dissertation, some years ago. Initially I thought -wow, must have this- but then realised I simply didn’t care enough any more to buy it.

Yes, my BSc dissertation, MSc dissertation and PhD thesis are all in the sane field, which I have subsequently worked in for 20+years.

I recently read mine back and can't believe how clever I used to be!

Years of work means you have to clear some space in your brain for new information I guess.

I love reading it though (once every year or two) as it's about a subject I still love and find super interesting.

No, I wasn't the slightest bit interested in it even back then. However I did an industrial placement year as part of my degree which followed a different discipline in the same subject and have stayed in the same field ever since (30+ years), I never tire of it.

No, I changed directions once I left uni and although I'm in a similar field, I'm not that interested in that any more

Yes but only in a vague if I see a news article I read it and keep up with major break through stuff. Archaeology degree.

Yes I would love to know about the current situation with the topic mine was on. But I had to actually go abroad and conduct research then, because the media reported nothing then and nothing now.

NO! In fact I went off the subject whilst writing the bloody thing because the stupid idiot whose remains had not been found for hundreds of years went and got himself discovered. As I in the process of writing a dissertation on where he might be located I had to start the whole thing all over again. Not that I'm still bitter about the whole thing...

Yes, though my dissertation was a nightmare and absolutely not my best work. I’d like to look at the subject again but from a slightly different angle and using a different methodology m

@SmileCheese Richard III?

Richard III?

How did you guess. The ignorant bugger could have at least done me the favour of staying under his carpark for another few months. I wasted about 7 months of my life writing a dissertation which then had to be deleted. My lecturers at the time were very sympathetic and said they had never encountered a situation where a student had been so unlucky.

Yes. It was about how the media influence the outcome of general elections (subtitled "it's the Sun wot won it"). Still feels pretty relevant!

Yes. It was on the work of an author I haven’t read for a while but I love her more than ever she enjoyed doing my dissertation more than anything in my degree - nearly all of which I loved. I could have done a dissertation twice as long

No, I'm not sure I'd even understand it now (lots of biochemistry which I was quite shaky on at the time TBH).

No. And I wasn't interested when I wrote it in all honesty

Yes, mine was about how lobbyists impact on a bill passing through the House of Lords. I still read quite a lot of political books and these are interesting political times.

I was so disinterested at the time that I didn’t even bother to collect it. It was shredded.

Cross about that now. It was about the role of sex in dystopian literature - both subjects I’ve maintained a fair amount of interest in

I should have said ‘uninterested’.

Doh.

I still find it all interesting. I did an Ancient History BA then Museum Studies MA. Undergrad was spiritual and civic boundaries in the city of Rome, then postgrad was the display of classical antiquities in 21st century museums.

I still work in museums and would love to still be working with classical stuff if I could, so definitely still interested!

My German one- generally yes as it was about sexual equality (but in Germany).
I can't remember exactly what my Law dissertation was on. So no.

If something comes on the news about it I might read about it, but I'm not actively interested. It was a long time ago and plenty of other things Have filled up my brain since then.

@SmileCheese the most unluckiest student ever. Did you guess where he was?

I did my dissertation in late 90's and I can honestly say that I simply can't remember what it was about

Yes, I still find the premise for my undergraduate degree interesting, although I pretty much exhausted most of the topic so I’m not sure how much more there would be to learn or write about.

My master degree was on something I barely cared about and it didn’t get a very good grade, partly because it was a controversial point of view and mostly because I just didn’t care enough to do it justice. I’m not interested in it now.

@crazymuseummumtobe your undergrad dissertation sounds fascinating! Both of mine are history subjects too.

Dh would say that it probably would be if he still understood what he'd written.

I did show it to ds when he needed an MRI scan so he could see some of the pictures, although dh's pictures were more often of rat's brains than human's.

My dissertation was on something around whether selling books on the internet would ever take off (obviously 20+ years ago) I concluded probably not!
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