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Swiv (decrepit postgrad)

"How to Scare the Fourth Years"
This was the notice up about registration for my special subject module (this year long fandango that I have to go through).
"Registration will be at 9:45 PROMPT in Room 1.17. Attendance is obligatory. Death Certificates Accepted."

Below it was the next, for another course: "All latecomers and non-attendees will be subject to terrible humiliation and punishment."

Yikes


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Catwoman

Maybe that says something about the attitudes to attendance of the previous fourth years.


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Swiv (decrepit postgrad)

well, we all know all our classes are compulsory, and it's only two hours a week...
I think they're just bored of term already...

or it's a competition - stick two professors in offices next to each other and it's handbags on the noticeboard.


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Catwoman

I don't think I;d have the discipline to be an arts student. So much unscheduled time.


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Swiv (decrepit postgrad)

well, I'm "reading" right now.
preparatory to not handing in a death certificate


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Catwoman

Ah, yes. How I would love "reading" to be counted as work. I read loads of things, all the time. (at uni now, waiting for the babies to arrive on sat)


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Swiv (decrepit postgrad)

well, unfortunately reading China Mieville or Margaret Atwood doesn't get me credits either...

just tempts me to footnote them for really good examples in essays.


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