Graduate students in Arts can register until February 5 to compete in the Faculty of Arts’ fourth annual 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) heat, to be held the week of March 7.
The entire event is immediately useful. Sitting down and distilling your thesis to an elevator pitch really helped me conceptualize the fundamentals of my dissertation,” says Joseph Buscemi, winner of the 2015 Arts 3MT heat and the People’s Choice winner of the 2015 UWaterloo 3MT finals.
“It's also valuable to get more practice speaking off-page in front of people, especially for those of us interested in teaching. Usually, I'm not used to having all eyes in a room on me unless I broke something expensive, so this was a terrific experience.”
The 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) is a university-wide competition for research-based masters (thesis or MRP) and doctoral students at the University of Waterloo. Competitors show one static slide and may take no more than three minutes to present the breadth and significance of their graduate research to a panel of Arts judges comprised of faculty, staff and alumni.
The winner(s) of the Arts heat will win a cash prize, and advance to the university finals, where they will compete for a first place prize of $1000.
Registration is now closed.