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    23 Dissertations With Hilariously Honest Titles

    "Everything is wrong, but I know why." lolmythesis sums up years of academic work in one pithy sentence.

    Jo Barrow
    by Jo Barrow

    BuzzFeed Staff

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    ThinkStock / railelectropower / lolmythesis.com

    Real title: "Structure-Function Studies of the AIP-Survivin Complex"

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    ThinkStock / Jevtic / lolmythesis.com

    Real title: "Predicting Range of Motion and Joint Posture: Subchondral Apparent Density in the Sheep Hind Limb"

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    ThinkStock / Moodboard / lolmythesis.com

    Real title: "Detrital Zircon Evidence for Mixing of Mazatzal Province Age Detritus with Yavapai (ca. 1700-1740 Ma) and Older Detritus in the ca. 1650 Ma Mazatzal Province of Central New Mexico, USA"

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    ThinkStock / CamiloTorres / lolmythesis.com

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    ThinkStock / marko123434 / lolmythesis.com

    Real title: "From Intoxication to Sobriety: An Examination of the Early Modern English Coffeehouse and Alehouse as Part of the Broader Beverage Market"

    6.

    CBS / lolmythesis.com

    Real title: “Membership of Subculture as Made Evident Through Referential Verbal Cues”

    7.

    imgur.com

    Real title: "Meaning and Meaninglessness in the Works of Philip Roth"

    8.

    lolmythesis.com / Via galleryhip.com

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    Wikimedia Creative Commons / lolmythesis.com

    10.

    Getty / FREDERIC J. BROWN / Staff / lolmythesis.com

    Real title: “The Reality of Woman; the Evolution of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl and the Trope’s Effect on Cultural Gender Identity”

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    ThinkStock / eyematrix /lolmythesis.com

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    ThinkStock / dick erken/ lolmythesis.com

    Real title: "Cloning and Characterisation of the mir106~363 MicroRNA Cluster From Xenopus tropicalis"

    13.

    ThinkStock / Svisio / lolmythesis.com

    Real title: "Using Zinc Finger Nucleases to Characterize the Regulation of c-MYC Transcription"

    14.

    ThinkStock / Design Pics/ Mary Van de Ven / lolmythesis.com

    15.

    Wikimedia Creative Commons / lolmythesis.com

    Real title: "Integrating Restoration and Ecologically Based Weed Management for Invasive Knotweed Control"

    16.

    BBC / lolmythesis.com

    Real title: "Incompatible Hero: Why Jack Harkness Couldn’t Stay on the TARDIS"

    17.

    en.wikipedia.org / lolmythesis.com

    18.

    ThinkStock / Fuse / lolmythesis.com

    Real title: "In Vitro Models for Investigating Keratinocyte Responses to Ultraviolet B Radiation"

    19.

    ThinkStock / Wavebreakmedia Ltd / lolmythesis.com

    Real title: "Land Reform and Populism in Colonial Victorian Politics, 1857–1862"

    20.

    ThinkStock / poligonchic / lolmythesis.com

    21.

    ThinkStock / Jezperklauzen / lolmythesis.com

    Real title: "Effect of CO2 Leakages on Autotrophic Growth in the Subsurface During Geological Sequestration"

    22.

    Escape Artists / lolmythesis.com

    Real title: "Masculinity and Power in the English Mêlée Tournament, 1100–1400"

    23.

    Wikimedia Commons / lolmythesis.com

    Real title: "Can the Static and Dynamic Models of Time Account for the Possibility of Time Travel?"