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Published by Matthew Davidson on Fri, 22/05/2015 - 12:37am
Always happens after leaving the house for longer than it takes to go to the corner shop and back. I'm over-stimulated and not at all interested in going up the little wooden hill to Bedforshire.
Once or twice now (I'm being evasive to protect my sources), when venting frustration at neoliberal higher education, I've been told by a member of the academic precariat (paraphrasing heavily):
"I completely understand where you're coming from, and I sympathise, but I don't personally work like that. I go through the motions of administrative accountability, but what I do is principally guided by my own academic integrity, and is as near as possible to what I would do under ideal circumstances."
Published by Matthew Davidson on Thu, 21/05/2015 - 11:04pm
After a year and a half of #uni, I've physically met two of my lecturers. What if the others are all Andy Serkis in a one-piece suit covered in dots? Man, he's good.
Published by Matthew Davidson on Thu, 21/05/2015 - 9:54pm
#DLW asked when I was planning to become rich writing books. Had to break it to her that the kinds of books I read don't make anybody rich. Promised to look into the possibility of writing about a school for wizards.
This evening I attended what I think must be my first book launch since leaving Sydney over a decade ago. I feel almost civilised. Here's a comment I left on The Conversation's review of Richard Hil's new book:
Students don't only have "no choice but to study online because of work or family commitments", or indeed anything to do with their own circumstances. Often we have no choice but to study online because we have no choice but to study online.