my two cents - let it go since you asked if employers would be interested. i don't think they would be.

if you need to do it for yourself, then do it.

after a couple years out of school, no. your potential employers are now more interested in what you can do on the job. put your energy into a competition or something else if you've got extra time on your hands.

my pro-thesis advisor, thomas schumacher, told the entire class a story at the beginning of our pro-thesis that went something like this. his thesis document at cornell was bound and made part of the library like most schools do. many years later, he went back to the school, was in the library, and decided to check out his thesis doc. he found the book and opened it and there was nothing but a series of almost blank pages. seems back then they printed the thesis docs on the equivalent of a bad blue print paper. overtime, the text and images on the pages had almost vanished.

your thesis seems very important to you now as it should. as time goes on and you grow, your thesis will seem less significant. your mind will be filling with more pressing issues. i say move beyond the thesis. we all look back and say gawd, i wish i had the knowledge that i have now way back then. imagine the things i could have done.

i concur, let it go... or spend time out of school exploring your thesis if you have time to spare. you don't need to pay someone to tell you how to 'finish' your thesis.

good story e.

do both. what makes you believe you have to pick one?

i've been thinking about this a lot lately as well...i definately did not get to explore my thesis as much as i wanted to, nor will i really have the opportunity to get to in my present work environment, much less any in the future...

i chalk it up to a challenge for myself to keep me reading and thinking critically about issues that are important to me.

it would be nice to have a few months to devote to it, but i doubt this research would help me professionally. which seems too bad. but i could seriously see myself doing going back to school if i felt like i was in some sort of rut at work.

are there any people who have become licensed and gone back to school?

are there any benefits to being licensed relative to grad school acceptance or program length? i don't mean to thread-jack, but i am curious...

i too felt that my thesis was never completely explored ("finished"). in retrospect, i should have taken an incomplete grade and spent the summer semester finishing it.

For a couple of months, I worked on my thesis in my spare time. It was worth the effort, just for the psychological satisfaction of having closure.

thanks for the advice, i think i'll take a couple months and work on it - i am happy with the written work but not with design and presentation. i also have learned a couple new programs between school and now - and may as well show this. i guess i don't need to tell the whole sad story to potential employers, but prove it to myself.

your other option, if you have a b.arch., is grad school. plenty of post professional degrees out there, usually one year. met plenty of people that have done it already registered. it's usually been a big salary boost afterwared, if you want to have practical reasons on top of it all.

afterward

i havent decided on post grad. I have a b.arch. I would like to get into green design techology, but also do a design studio. That's for another thread I guess

good luck ODR.