Why Did I Do My Thesis on Contract Farming in LDCs?

...when I could have done a thesis on, say, the masterpiece that is R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet?

Or perhaps on Mims's This is Why I'm Hot?

(In the latter, note the reference to Mims's "homage to the Oakland–San Francisco Bay Area's relentlessly knuckleheaded and sorta wonderful hyphy movement, with its proclivities for going dumb, making thizz faces, ghost-riding the whip, etc." There's a hilarious Venn diagram to accompany the paragraph.)