No, You Are Not A Covered Wagon; Apparently You Do Not Have What It Takes.
Dear University of Sussex,
You have been ranked the second-best place to study linguistics in the country! Congratulations! Do you:
a) axe the Linguistics department, or
b) not be stupid?
Take your time. This is not a trick question.
I really hope this (massively stupid) decision is somehow reversed, because, even if it doesn't affect my degree (which it very well could), it is bloody ridiculous, and it will put some excellent tutors out of work, and did I mention that it is stupid? IF A DEPARTMENT IS ONE OF THE BEST IN THE COUNTRY, YOU DO NOT GET RID OF IT. I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THIS OBVIOUS.
(Who even made this decision? None of the tutors or students appeared to know anything about it before BAM HEY NO MORE LINGUISTICS ENJOY YOUR HOLIDAYS. Also look at the last paragraph of this article: it hasn't even gone through the necessary processes for such decisions yet, and yet the university is already talking about it as a certainty and telling future students who have been offered places in Linguistics that, oh, hey, that course isn't going to exist any more. The whole thing seems appallingly underhand.)
Anyway! I do not like my entries to be entirely full of misery, so now it is time for something happy! AND I HAPPEN TO HAVE JUST THE THING.
A couple of days ago, I received a notice that someone had sent me a letter with insufficient postage, and so I had to pick it up from the handling office. (This, as it turned out, was a good thing, because otherwise it would probably have been crammed through the letterbox and damaged.) In excited anticipation, because man do I love getting post, I set off.
Now, you may have noticed that I am ever-so-slightly prone to exaggeration, and in particular to use of the term 'best thing ever'. Here is the problem with this: when something actually is the best thing ever, how does one express it?
The first sheet I drew out of the envelope was a drawing of Derren Brown in Silent Hill, holding a ukulele.
In conclusion: sos_your_face is amazing.
You have been ranked the second-best place to study linguistics in the country! Congratulations! Do you:
a) axe the Linguistics department, or
b) not be stupid?
Take your time. This is not a trick question.
I really hope this (massively stupid) decision is somehow reversed, because, even if it doesn't affect my degree (which it very well could), it is bloody ridiculous, and it will put some excellent tutors out of work, and did I mention that it is stupid? IF A DEPARTMENT IS ONE OF THE BEST IN THE COUNTRY, YOU DO NOT GET RID OF IT. I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THIS OBVIOUS.
(Who even made this decision? None of the tutors or students appeared to know anything about it before BAM HEY NO MORE LINGUISTICS ENJOY YOUR HOLIDAYS. Also look at the last paragraph of this article: it hasn't even gone through the necessary processes for such decisions yet, and yet the university is already talking about it as a certainty and telling future students who have been offered places in Linguistics that, oh, hey, that course isn't going to exist any more. The whole thing seems appallingly underhand.)
Anyway! I do not like my entries to be entirely full of misery, so now it is time for something happy! AND I HAPPEN TO HAVE JUST THE THING.
A couple of days ago, I received a notice that someone had sent me a letter with insufficient postage, and so I had to pick it up from the handling office. (This, as it turned out, was a good thing, because otherwise it would probably have been crammed through the letterbox and damaged.) In excited anticipation, because man do I love getting post, I set off.
Now, you may have noticed that I am ever-so-slightly prone to exaggeration, and in particular to use of the term 'best thing ever'. Here is the problem with this: when something actually is the best thing ever, how does one express it?
The first sheet I drew out of the envelope was a drawing of Derren Brown in Silent Hill, holding a ukulele.
In conclusion: sos_your_face is amazing.