{"id":114147,"date":"2018-03-30T11:01:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T15:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=114147"},"modified":"2018-08-02T14:49:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T18:49:32","slug":"video-with-one-computer-click-zsofia-duarte-18-nears-the-end-of-the-thesis-triathlon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/30\/video-with-one-computer-click-zsofia-duarte-18-nears-the-end-of-the-thesis-triathlon\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: With a click, Zsofia Duarte &#8217;18 nears the end of the honors thesis triathlon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHere I go,\u201d says a somewhat pensive Zsofia Duarte \u201918 as she lowers her index finger toward the track pad of her laptop.<\/p>\n<p>And with a click, Duarte clears the biggest and most pressure-packed hurdle of her thesis project: the online submission of her 115-page document to the college\u2019s searchable scholarly database known as SCARAB.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Zsofia Duarte &#039;18 submits her honors thesis\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/262546268?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Duarte is sitting in a quiet part of Ladd library; appropriately, she\u2019s near the Bates history section. While she\u2019s flying solo as she navigates the various dropdown menus of the SCARAB form, this pivotal moment is bookended by friendship and community.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Wow. I just want to sit here and stare at it for awhile.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, friends surrounded her for a Bates tradition, in which first-years help seniors bind a hard copy of the thesis (hard copies aren\u2019t always required, but seniors <em>love<\/em> the tradition). Later, she\u2019ll go to dinner with friends at a cozy Lewiston restaurant, Boba, famed for its fusion of French and Asian cooking.<\/p>\n<p>She clicks the pad, the file uploads, and she&#8217;s greeted by an official-looking confirmation form. &#8220;Wow,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I just want to sit here and stare at it for awhile.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An environmental studies major and one of the college&#8217;s Community Engaged Research Fellows, Duarte examined the local food movement as it plays out at the Lewiston&#8217;s farmers market, specifically looking at the experiences of Somali Bantu food producers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_114224\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/03\/duarte-thesis-IMG_0092.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114224\" class=\"size-large wp-image-114224\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/03\/duarte-thesis-IMG_0092-900x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/03\/duarte-thesis-IMG_0092-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/03\/duarte-thesis-IMG_0092-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/03\/duarte-thesis-IMG_0092-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/03\/duarte-thesis-IMG_0092.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-114224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends surround Zsofia Duarte &#8217;18 after the traditional binding of her senior honors thesis.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While all Bates seniors complete a thesis or capstone project, a select few \u2014 less than 10 percent of the class \u2014 are invited to conduct a supercharged version of thesis, the honors thesis.<\/p>\n<p>An honors thesis is an academic triathlon. It\u2019s months of research, often beginning in the junior year; months of writing and revising under the guidance of a faculty adviser; and then the submission and concluding defense, in which a committee of scholars interviews and challenges the thesis conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s join Duarte in Ladd library as she clears the biggest honors-thesis hurdle: the online submission of her 115-page document.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":114224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,30,11012],"tags":[7842,10834],"class_list":["post-114147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-life","category-civic-engagement","category-student-life","tag-senior-thesis","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114147"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114333,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114147\/revisions\/114333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}