AND ANOTHER THING

Dear Authors of papers,

If you cannot spell, write English, punctuate, or write coherently, please desist from writing papers. There is nothing worse than reading a paper, trying to cram, and being constantly distracted by spelling errors and odd uses for the comma that just force all the sense of what you were reading out of your head.

Sincerely,
Felicity xxx

p.s. You are strongly encouraged to write papers if you have a funny or memorable surname. Please don't write more than one paper a year, though, or we start having to add 'a', 'b', etc to the references.
Geraldine

The End Is Nigh

The Rapture that we were promised last Saturday failed to take any of the medics up - we assume we've all just been sinning too hard for the last three years - unfortunately meaning we still have to sit our exams. My first is in about two and a half hours' time, so naturally, I am updating the blog for the first time in three or four months. Sorry about that.

Here are some ways to guarantee you do badly in your third year exams:
1. Fail to read papers until Easter term.
2. Spend most of the Easter holiday working on your dissertation, to the exclusion of all revision.
3. Spend most of Easter term with a not-work to work ratio of about 5:1 or higher.
4. Cram, in the last week.
5. Fail to stick to even your cramming timetable, meaning you only finish going through lectures the day before your exam.
6. Update your blog in the last three hours before your first exam.
7. Cultivate a sense of impending doom, but manage to avoid getting The Fear until, oooh, half-way through your third exam (I'm guessing).
8. Remind yourself, often and loudly, that you only really need to get a third.

I'll see you all on the other side.
Felicity xxx