I received a call last week from someone I didn’t know. He introduced himself and made the following statement which I had never heard before and venture a guess, that I will never hear again…
He said, “I read your thesis and was wondering if I could ask you some questions?”
Maybe I could expect this if my thesis was remotely interesting to the general public, but this is it…
Not exactly a page turner.
Well it turns out that this gentleman’s daughter was doing a science project of some iron artifacts and antiques they had found on their property and he wanted to ask an “expert.” Well I BS’ed my way through most of his questions (it’s hard to remember that stuff three years later) just like I did during my defense.
Anyway, it’s not every day that someone reads your thesis…I hope I got all my facts and figure correct…I’d hate for his daughter to fail her project.