[DJ Urbanovsky]

I don't see the problem, as long as the album is worthy of his graduating with honors (read, it should be superlative), and it adheres to the spirit of the assignment. Even if you are talented, writing and performing meaningful music is a far more complicated task than writing an actual thesis. With a thesis, you need all of the usual language, grammar, and research skills. With music, add to that a necessary and fundamental understanding of time, syncopation, how all of the instrumentation should interact with one another, and then you have to write and perform the actual pieces themselves. And once all of that is done, you need to get the compositions to stick to the tape. And if you're doing it all yourself, then you also need to understand your recording hardware/software, in addition to the engineering, production, and mastering work. Sometimes you get lucky, and everything just seems to come together on its own, but usually it is a tremendous amount work.