Burn Your Draft

02/12/2024

Juno Kerelis ’24 was the third student podcast producer on Burn Your Draft, and we’re so happy to get to speak to them on the other side of their time at Reed. If you’ve been listening since Juno hosted the podcast, you may have noticed little musical interludes during some of the episodes. Most of those were composed by Juno! Thank you for your work on the podcast, and for coming to talk to us about your year studying Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.

🎧 Hear from Juno on SoundCloud (or listen to Burn Your Draft anywhere you find podcasts): https://on.soundcloud.com/LSWV9Qokwqg1uwXP8

Listen to interviews with dozens of Reed alumni and learn about their thesis years on our website:
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19/11/2024

Josie Bicknell '24 wrote a pharmaceutical development thesis about looking for a new way to develop antibiotics. She also tells us about her interest in biology and chemistry and looking for bridges between the disciplines, and how chemistry can be used to do things like examine snake p**p to learn about snake evolution.

🎧 Hear from Josie on SoundCloud (or listen to Burn Your Draft anywhere you find podcasts): https://on.soundcloud.com/zMDsNZSoptLoLMYa9

Listen to interviews with dozens of Reed alumni and learn about their thesis years on our website:
🔥📜🔥 reed.edu/burnyourdraft 🔥📜🔥

30/10/2024

In honor of Halloween BYD is venturing into the dark halls of the female gothic with English grad, Jordan Kappler '24.

🎧 Hear from Jordan on SoundCloud (or listen to Burn Your Draft anywhere you find podcasts): https://on.soundcloud.com/dGR2drpWcGLygt7t8

Listen to interviews with dozens of Reed alumni and learn about their thesis years on our website:
🔥📜🔥 reed.edu/burnyourdraft 🔥📜🔥

14/10/2024

Aroon combined his interests in sustainability and aviation to examine the effects that a carbon tax might have on full service airline carriers and low cost airline carriers (it didn't look good for the low cost carriers).

🎧 Hear from Aroon on SoundCloud (or listen to Burn Your Draft anywhere you find podcasts): https://on.soundcloud.com/zoTDSNS7ECt3bexi8

Listen to interviews with dozens of Reed alumni and learn about their thesis years on our website:
🔥📜🔥 reed.edu/burnyourdraft 🔥📜🔥

30/09/2024

Learn a bit more about federal efforts to repatriate Native American human remains and cultural items with Courtland as she tells us about writing her Anthropology department thesis on NAGPRA.

🎧 Hear from Courtland on SoundCloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/cHa3U2oe9a2aoJyD8

Listen to interviews with dozens of Reed alumni and learn about their thesis years on our website:
🔥📜🔥 reed.edu/burnyourdraft 🔥📜🔥

Listen to Burn Your Draft anywhere you find podcasts.

11/09/2024

He Bai ’24 tells us about how she chose math and statistics as her fields at Reed, what drew her to Reed in the first place, and how the Squidward Constant came to be in her thesis 🦑🦑

Listen to our interview with He and learn about other recent grads' thesis year on our website:
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Listen to Burn Your Draft anywhere you find podcasts.

28/08/2024

Nina started as a math major, transferred to Reed and found comp lit, and ended Reed with a thesis that included english translations (maybe the only ones) of an obscure Russian emigre poet.

Listen to our interview with Nina and learn about other recent grads' thesis year on our website:
🔥📜🔥 reed.edu/burnyourdraft 🔥📜🔥

Listen to Burn Your Draft anywhere you find podcasts.

#62: A Russian Emigre Poet with Nina Gopaldas ’24, Comparative Literature Posted on August 28, 2024 by Nate Martin Burn Your Draft is back from summer break! Check out this interview with Nina Gopaldas ’24, whose thesis involved translating poetry by a Russian refugee named Olga Skopichenko who ...

01/07/2024

Tommy and Tina get into ESG, rock climbing, and not getting too worked up about thesis.

Learn about Tina's (and other recent grads') thesis year on our website:
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29/05/2024

Ashley tells us a bit about moral responsibility, mental illness, and the joy of having a thesis desk in the library.

Learn about Ashley's (and other recent grads') thesis year on our website:
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25/04/2024

Linguistics, performing gendered speech, all the reading, and a kitten 🐈📖

Learn about Joray's (and other recent grads') thesis year on our website:
reed.edu/burnyourdraft

08/03/2024

🎙Producer Juno Kerelis talks about their current work on their thesis and interviews other current seniors about their own approaches to organization🎙

Listen to this episode and interviews with recent grads on our website:
https://blogs.reed.edu/burn-your-draft/

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📷: Nate Martin

27/02/2024

Isaac finds anthropology and takes a research trip to Florida. The topic gets kind of dark, but there's always something to learn.

Hear from Isaac (and other recent grads) on our website:
https://blogs.reed.edu/burn-your-draft/2024/02/27/isaac-walton/