



Alternate thesis titles for Dr. Rhett Herman
(Many thanks to the
Relativity Group at Montana State University for recording
these for posterity!)

(In what may be ascending order as one
goes down the list!)
- It was a Dark and Stormy Night
- And Now for my Next Trick...(nothing up my sleve)
- The First Seven Years (OK, so the number seven is sort of
an inside joke!)
- I Just Can't Quite Pull It Out (I just couldn't get the
answer to come out of the equations one day, and I think I
was caught muttering to myself!)
- I Guess I Finally Pulled It Out
- I Came, I Calculated, I Wrote
- (Covariant) Point Break (my thesis involved some
serious point-splitting!)
- If You Understand This, Seek Help (thanks, Michael!)
- Call Me Zathras (so I was feeling my life was taking
some unfortunate turns at one point)
- Point (Split) Fiction
- In-a-Mess-'O-the-Point-Splitting
- Last Train to Pointsville
- TeXStravaganza (I know you share my pain)
- Mission: Impossible
- So Many Equations, So Little Time
- One Down, Six To Go
- Point-Splitting: The Movie
- Lots More Equations
- 8 1/2 Weeks (Do NOT try to write your thesis in this
short of a time)
- The Pain! (with a tip 'o the hat to Dr. Tanaka)
- 7-Year Sandstorm (the number 7 kept rearing its ugly head!)
- What I Was Thinking on a Ski Slope Before I Hit a Tree (no,
I didn't understand it either)
- Thesis the Last Thing That I do (ar-ar)
- And to Think I Could Have Been a 250k-per-year Brain
Surgeon
- Point-Splitting in 1674 Easy Steps
- Point-Splitting for Dummies
- How I Stayed Away From the Basement (ouch!!)
- How I Graduated From School Halfway to Retirement
- Rhett: The Graduate Years
- How I Got Out of Graduate School
- xxxxxxx Who? (OK, so this one's an inside joke)
- Well, Duh! (I like this one!)
And finally,
- My God! It's Full of Equations! (With apologies to
Mr. Kubrick)