a rather spontaneous doom-laden rant!

Jun 06, 2006 19:21

last exam tomorrow! huzzah.

gaaaaaaaaaaaaad, i hate revision. HATE IT WITH A FIERY PASSION THAT BURNS LIKE A THOUSAND SUNS AND OTHER PLANETERY BODIES GENERALLY ACCEPTED AS BEING QUITE WARM.

the english dept have invited us all down the pub after it. i sincerely hope they're buying. surely it wont put them that much out of pocket when the lecturers strike gets resolved. and it fucking better get resolved in their favour, for them (lecturers really are badly underpaid) and also after everything they've had to put us through.

Our english essay deadline was put 5 weeks before the exam for a reason: so we could get useful feedback on it which would be useful to bear in mind for the exam. have we got any useful feedback? no. i haven't even got my mark.

thankfully they're only witholding marks and not taking the more drastic action that the ATU members are taking. My friend (uni of Leicester) told me her exam didn't even get set, but i think they resolved that one. some lecturers at some uni's aren't even marking anything, so it could be that those students are fucked if they want to graduate this summer. imagine the backlog of essays there will be when they finally agree to mark them.

Apparently it's not going to put us at "any great disadvantage", because graduates all over the country are in the same situation. However, the people who are applying to do an MA next year are at a huge disadvantage. The deadline for applying to do an MA is very early in the summer, because the majority of people who do them don't go straight on after graduating. If they don't get their marks on time, their plans will be forced back a year.

but then again, i can understand why they have to take action. being a lecturer isn't a highly paid job for the time and work they have to put in. you would think they would be able to get extra income from research projects etc, but no; my Irish Lit lecturer wrote a book, which was published through Manchester University Press, i think - as the author, she gets 1% of whatever it makes. one percent!

if you want to make shitloads of money from writing, then seriously. You better be the next Dan Brown.
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