SO497.html

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layout: lse
title: "MSc in Inequalities and Social Science Dissertation"
course_code: SO497
course_url: http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/calendar/courseGuides/SO/2017_SO497.htm
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<p>I wrote my 9,981-word dissertation on the political economy of Silicon Valley. I stupidly left all the actual writing to the ~4 days before it was due, so it's not quite as well-written as I'd like it to be, and I definitely cribbed some sentences from other things I've written, but at least it's done. I also quite like the ending, as cheesy as it is.</p>

<p>Here's the finished version as a PDF (after fixing a few typos that I only noticed way after the deadline, and reducing the margins/line spacing): <a href="/pdfs/dissertation.pdf">my extremely rushed dissertation</a>. Incredibly, I managed to scrape by with a distinction (72).

<p>I used my personal note-taking app, <a href="http://bookmarker.dellsystem.me">Bookmarker</a>, to keep track of quotes that could potentially be useful for my dissertation. You can see the full list of these quotes <a href="http://bookmarker.dellsystem.me/tag/dissertation/cite">here</a>.</p>