csi_sanders1129 (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
csi_sanders1129) wrote2011-09-13 08:35 pm
csi_sanders1129) wrote2011-09-13 08:35 pm
(no subject)
Fucking fuck I hate Capstone.
I started out with an idea about how Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's differing views on early 20th century Spiritualism played a significant role in social reactions to Spiritualism, but my professor shot that one down before I could even actually present it to any sort of extent. So. After fuming about that for a while, I resorted to a topic that he suggested and I tweaked a little- How ACD's depression effected his his belief in Spiritualism which in turn effected his writing style,a s evident from the shift from the ever logical Sherlock Holmes to his later workis about faeries and seances.
We spent class on Thursday, all 2.5 hours of it, without a break, watching as he systematically slaughtered all 13 of our thesis ideas. Probably half of which HE GAVE TO US AS SUGGESTIONS. After this class, several of us went out and got smashingly drunk. I supervised the smashingly drunk people and lived vicariously.
So. Now I need to come up with something new that is a) historically releveant, b) never been done before c) answers the god awful question of 'So What?' (which is stupid, because if you say 'So What?' enough eventually you get to wondering why the hell you're bothering in the first place and why does history even matter and what am I doing with my life and things get depressing from there.
TL;DR: NEED NEW HISTORY CAPSTONE IDEA. SUGGESTIONS?
I started out with an idea about how Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's differing views on early 20th century Spiritualism played a significant role in social reactions to Spiritualism, but my professor shot that one down before I could even actually present it to any sort of extent. So. After fuming about that for a while, I resorted to a topic that he suggested and I tweaked a little- How ACD's depression effected his his belief in Spiritualism which in turn effected his writing style,a s evident from the shift from the ever logical Sherlock Holmes to his later workis about faeries and seances.
We spent class on Thursday, all 2.5 hours of it, without a break, watching as he systematically slaughtered all 13 of our thesis ideas. Probably half of which HE GAVE TO US AS SUGGESTIONS. After this class, several of us went out and got smashingly drunk. I supervised the smashingly drunk people and lived vicariously.
So. Now I need to come up with something new that is a) historically releveant, b) never been done before c) answers the god awful question of 'So What?' (which is stupid, because if you say 'So What?' enough eventually you get to wondering why the hell you're bothering in the first place and why does history even matter and what am I doing with my life and things get depressing from there.
TL;DR: NEED NEW HISTORY CAPSTONE IDEA. SUGGESTIONS?