Our youngest son, Chris, recently finished his honors thesis in classics.  It is quite technical (yes, I’ve “read” it) and about 100 pages long.  That length is pretty typical.  Now consider an undergraduate doing this for his thesis on Shakespeare:

In his senior year at Princeton in 1954, Daniel Seltzer, assistant professor of English, wrote a thesis that was nearly six hundred pages long…Dealing with “royal themes–the characterization of moral ideas on the stage,” the thesis was for Seltzer a “kind of catharsis,” and he now looks back with Joycean delight at the comment of his roommate who suggested that “I put the thing on casters.”

Who or what do you love enough to go overboard?  Rather, take a look at the people and things you tend to go overboard with and you will discover your true loves!