The Major Cook of Academia – maufacturing another controversy?

So a mature student in the USA entered a programme to become a teacher at Stanford.
She feels that she was victimised and intimidated into quitting, but she didn’t give in to the ideologically motivated pinkos in charge and stuck it out and graduated despite them.
Her story was given national exposure by a national newspaper and [...]

Post Modernism still alive in S Africa

I pick on S Africa but I’m pretty sure it’s still alive in sociology and english departments all around the world.
But really how much of a worthwhile endeavour can it be if one click of the mouse will produce a valid essay from a VLT of a computer programme?
No really?

Climate change is bad for real(ale that is)

The beaver once more horrifies me with some serious news.
Climate change is starting to get very personal now.

Swimming with the sharks – the accountant and the mercenaries at Heritage Oil

I was reading some serious news on the beaver about the activities of the military owners of Heritage Oil and wow I saw the name and picture of an old school mate, Paul Atherton.
It`s been a while but he really hasn`t changed a bit except for the company he keeps.
Paul the sharks you are [...]

Anatomy

Jeez what a waste of time.
Anatomy at college should be buy the book and learn this list of words and when we ask you questions about them at the end of term remember the words either side of them and repeat them. Origin and insertion today, I mean wtf!
Looking forward to physiology exam next [...]

Bones Test

The test is done and dusted.
I sat with Shelby afterwards and went through some of the stickier points of the test. She’s a really bright person so it was good to do. I reckon that I got 20 of the 100 wrong. I’ll settle for 80% for a strict test of memory.
Time to focus [...]

Bones Test

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH
Is there anything more pissy than rote learning?
I’ve got my bones test on thursday and it is all about memorising names and stuff.
Maybe I’m a big whiney git, but really all of this is covered in charts and once the xam is over I’m going to forget it all anyway!

What a week

It’s been fun.
I’m studying the second part of physiology with Ita who is a fun instructor and gives me instruction in a way that I am used to from the way I was taught back in London. Also one of my colleagues is instructing me in Anatomy, so that could be an interesting experience for [...]