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by tchalla·3y ago·view on hn ↗
> What even happened here? Did he not once talk to his supervisor during the time he wrote his thesis. To me this is quite bizarre, you would want to talk to your supervisor regularly surely you have to have some questions about the content, details, structure and formalities.

It's an interesting angle for sure. However, the tone of the post doesn't suggest the issue with structure but content. Even if the professor's opinion were true - it would be quite bizarre considering the prof himself suggested to write the thesis.

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> considering the prof himself suggested to write the thesis.

Perhaps the professor thought that the student was capable to do this in acceptable quality - but afterwards the professor saw that he was too positive in his judgement of the capabilities of the student to be able to do this.

But you would also talk about the contents with your professor, even just in rough strokes.

It seems extremely strange to me that in the months it has to have taken to write the thesis none of this came up between student and professor.