« Please please please, let me... | Main | Urgent sugar ingestion »
January 08, 2005
Candidates should not repeat material already used
Tonight I discovered I have no moral obligation to keep my photocopied notes from the college I left five years ago. I realised this by reading an exam question from an old exam paper, one I apparently answered, on The Crucible. If you had asked me earlier if I'd read or seen this play I would have said no. Mind you, not having experienced the play in its entirety probably wouldn't have stopped my trying to answer a question on it. In my finals. I think I once wrote a quote for a president of the students' union condemning the college for cutting the study time students had before their exams, as, in the case of final year students, they were the most important exams they would ever take. Clearly even I didn't really buy this.
With the exam paper were some old college photocopies which I'd put to one side after leaving college, believing that (presumably trying to feel better about completely failing to take my degree seriously) I would read them someday. For my own amusement. Because, after all, they did look kind of interesting. They've been sitting in my room for five years now. And now they're sitting in the recycle bin. Under my bed there are alot more bundles of paper that are going to share the same fate. It seems a kind of release will follow this act; the prospect of such a release makes me giddy.
Posted by Oliver at January 8, 2005 12:37 AM
Comments
Post a comment
AWVC uses the Markdown formatting system, a very simple way to format your comments. Whitespace is converted directly. Enclose a phrase with asterisks to italicise, and two asterisks (**) to embolden. A good introduction to the Markdown format is available here.
Cleverly, though, the preview is basically useless (it will just show what you've typed). If you want a real preview, enter your text into the Markdown Dingus, then re-enter it here.