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Context for the uninitiated: Every Reed student spends his or her senior year writing a big fancy thesis. Twice a year (i.e., in the spring for regular students and in the fall for those who started their theses in the spring) there’s a Thesis Parade, at which the seniors (identifiable by their plastic laurels) dance and scream and make out with everyone and ritually burn copies of their completed theses while the rest of us spray them with champagne. Then they march through the library, across the lawn, and up to the registrar's office to symbolically submit their theses.

Belated congratulations, seniors!

Photos from previous Thesis Parades: fall ’05, spring ’06, fall ’06, spring ’07, fall ’07, spring ’08, fall ’08, spring ’09, fall ’09, spring ’10, fall ’10, spring ’11, and fall ’11.

• See them bigger and buy prints at my website.
• Tag yourself in them on Facebook.

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Yes, I know, these are super late, forgive me.

Context for the uninitiated: Every Reed student spends his or her senior year writing a big fancy thesis. Twice a year (i.e., in the spring for regular students and in the fall for those who started their theses in the spring) there’s a Thesis Parade, at which the seniors (identifiable by their plastic laurels) dance and scream and make out with everyone and ritually burn copies of their completed theses while the rest of us spray them with champagne. Then they march through the library, across the lawn, and up to the registrar's office to symbolically submit their theses.

Belated congratulations, spring/fall seniors!

Photos from previous Thesis Parades: fall ’05, spring ’06, fall ’06, spring ’07, fall ’07, spring ’08, fall ’08, spring ’09, fall ’09, spring ’10, fall ’10, and spring ’11.

• See them bigger and buy prints at my website.
• Tag yourself in them on Facebook.

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Context for the uninitiated: Every Reed student spends his or her senior year writing a big fancy thesis. Twice a year (i.e., in the spring for regular students and in the fall for those who started their theses in the spring) there’s a Thesis Parade, at which the seniors (identifiable by their plastic laurels) dance and scream and make out with everyone and ritually burn copies of their completed theses while the rest of us spray them with champagne. Then they march through the library, across the lawn, and up to the registrar's office to symbolically submit their theses.
Congratulations, seniors!

Photos from previous Thesis Parades: fall ’05, spring ’06, fall ’06, spring ’07, fall ’07, spring ’08, fall ’08, spring ’09, fall ’09, spring ’10, and fall ’10.

See them bigger and buy prints at my website.

Tag yourself in them on Facebook. (Part two.)

There’s also a PART THREE! (PART ONE)


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Context for the uninitiated: Every Reed student spends his or her senior year writing a big fancy thesis. Twice a year (i.e., in the spring for regular students and in the fall for those who started their theses in the spring) there's a Thesis Parade, at which the seniors (identifiable by their plastic laurels) dance and scream and make out with everyone and ritually burn copies of their completed theses while the rest of us spray them with champagne. Then they march through the library, across the lawn, and up to the registrar's office to symbolically submit their theses.

Congratulations, seniors!

Photos from previous Thesis Parades: fall '05, spring '06, fall '06, spring '07, fall '07, spring '08, fall '08, spring '09, fall '09, and spring '10.

View these pictures at my website! There you can:

• see them larger

(click "Slideshow" or mouse over an image and click "Large" or "XLarge") or

buy prints!

(simply click "Buy")

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Context for the uninitiated: Every Reed student spends his or her senior year writing a big fancy thesis. Twice a year (i.e., in the spring for regular students and in the fall for those who started their theses in the spring) there's a Thesis Parade, at which the seniors (identifiable by their plastic laurels) dance and scream and make out with everyone and ritually burn copies of their completed theses while the rest of us spray them with champagne. Then they march through the library, across the lawn, and up to the registrar's office to symbolically submit their theses.
Congratulations, seniors!

Photos from previous Thesis Parades: fall '05, spring '06, fall '06, spring '07, fall '07, spring '08, fall '08, spring '09, and fall '09.

View these pictures at my website! There you can:

• see them larger

(click "Slideshow" or mouse over an image and click "Large" or "XLarge") or

buy prints!

(simply click "Buy")I'm an unemployed recent alumna and buying prints helps me afford to maintain my equipment and visit Reed. Every little bit helps. Thank you!

There's also a PART TWO!


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Context for the uninitiated: Every Reed student spends his or her senior year writing a big fancy thesis. Twice a year (i.e., in the spring for regular students and in the fall for those who started their theses in the spring) there's a Thesis Parade, at which the seniors (identifiable by their plastic laurels) dance and scream and make out with everyone and ritually burn copies of their completed theses while the rest of us spray them with champagne. Then they march through the library, across the lawn, and up to the registrar's office to symbolically submit their theses.
Photos from previous Thesis Parades: fall '05, spring '06, fall '06, spring '07, fall '07, spring '08, fall '08, and spring '09.

Click here to see these photos at my website and buy prints!


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These pictures are from May 2. Sorry I've been so damn slow getting them up.

Here's another Renn Fayre tradition: Picting. A bunch of Reedies, called picters/picts (Should this be capitalized?) strip naked and paint themselves blue, then run around campus chasing and hugging other students and professors. Then there are the anti-picters(/copters/copts), a clothed group armed with water guns full of red orange paint; the two groups try to smear one another with their color of paint.

Last year's pictures can be found here.

The picters said they were fine with my posting these, but just in case: If you're a picter in one of these and you've changed your mind, e-mail me (mollygingras at gmail).



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Context for the uninitiated: Every Reed student spends his or her senior year writing a big fancy thesis. Twice a year (i.e., in the spring for regular students and in the fall for those who started their theses in the spring) there's a Thesis Parade, at which the seniors (identifiable by their plastic laurels) dance and scream and make out with everyone and ritually burn copies of their completed theses while the rest of us spray them with champagne. Then they march through the library, across the lawn, and up to the registrar's office to symbolically submit their theses.

Don't forget to look at PART ONE!


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Just some shots of Reedies relaxing before Thesis Parade.


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