CS 702 - Final Polished Thesis

1. Make a final pass to ensure that everything is correct and complete:
   • Spell-check, grammar check everything
   • Title page with
     • Title (<= 60 characters)
     • your name
     • adviser name
     • The following text:
       Senior Thesis in Computer Science
       Middlebury College
       May 2009
   • Abstract
   • Acknowledgements
   • Table of contents with accurate page numbers
   • Table of figures (optional) with accurate figure numbers
   • Bibliography
   • All citation numbers in the text are accurate
   • All figure numbers in the text are accurate
   • Appendix (optional) with code, results, etc.

   Look at theses from previous years and try to emulate their look.

2. Get archival quality paper from Amy Rose in MBH 638.

3. Print TWO copies on archival paper. It's your choice whether you want to print single or double-sided. The latter saves trees, the former makes your thesis look fatter. (I'd say of you have more than 50 pages it's a good idea to print double-sided.) Find a good printer with plenty of toner. If you want, print any pages with color figures on a (good) color printer (also on the archival paper). Make sure all the pages are in the correct order. These two copies will be bound; one stays in the department, the other will be shipped to you later this summer.

4. Submit both copies to Amy Rose by 9 am on Tuesday 5/19. This is a HARD deadline - the department will meet at that time to determine your thesis grade and we want to see your final work of art at that time.

5. Please provide your mailing address to Amy Rose when you drop off your thesis copies. She will need this address to mail you final, bound copy to you. This will happen around August.

6. If you want, you can hand in a third copy of your thesis, which we will put in a black binder and put on the bookshelf in the MBH 632 lab. The idea is that the theses in the lab are easier to access than the fancy red ones in the glass cabinet. This may prove useful for future thesis students (thanks to Hiba for the suggestion). If you do (totally optional), simply print out an additional copy (single or double-sided - your choice) and give it to Amy.

7. Don't forget to submit the Online Thesis Form together with a .pdf or .doc file of your final thesis to Richard Jenkins by Wednesday 5/20 the latest.