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Tag Archives: student
Snow, cyclists, and a six stone friend (Rousse)
We stepped out into our yard to discover that it was snowing – in May. With a shudder TPR pulled the front door shut behind us and we set off up the road to meet our friends for coffee. On … Continue reading
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Tagged agility, coffee, culvert, cyclist, cyclists, door, East Claremont Street, Edinburgh, friend, home, ill, Leith Walk, May, obstacle, snow, student, undergraduate
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Koala bear on the loose in Manchester park (Rousse)
I was photographing wildlife in Alexandra Park with first year network computing student TB. Through the bushes we spotted a stag’s head. Then – even more exciting – I spied a koala bear half way up a tree. This was … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandra Park, bear, bush, bushes, computing, head, koala, Manchester, network, photograph, stag, student, tree, wildlife
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Stockton Sixth Form College students take to the skies and survive the flood (Rousse)
Very few of the staff who taught me were still now working at the Stockton Sixth Form College. The only teacher that I recognised was Mr X, still sporting his distinctive comb-over. I found ECM queening it over everyone in … Continue reading
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Tagged acting, arms, banana, blonde, boyfriend, Christmas, college, comb-over, common room, Cortina, door, driver, flood, Ford, friendship, home, house, infant, ladder, lead, mark 3, mother, nativity, parachute, parachutes, performance, play, plays, pupil, pupils, redhead, reunion, role, rope, school, sixth from, skies, staff, star, Stockton, Stockton-on-Tees, student, students, survive, swim, talent, teacher, teachers, tradition, tree, tree house, upstairs, water, waters, yellow
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Disco dancing and dalliances at the University of Birmingham (Rousse)
My birthday disco lights came in useful at a party hosted in a student flat with all my undergraduate pals from Birmingham University’s French department. While the rest of us danced the night away, X was up to her usual … Continue reading
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Tagged Birmingham University, dalliance, dalliances, dancing, department, disco, entertain, flat, French, gentlemen, guest, guests, lights, party, student, students, University of Birmingham
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Drug addiction contributes to project failure (Rousse)
The pallor of the student’s skin shone blue, as did the whites of his eyes. Here was yet another case of drug addiction amongst the undergraduates. I could also read confusion in his expression as he handed over his dissertation. … Continue reading
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Tagged addict, addiction, blue, confusion, dissertation, drug, expression, eyes, fail, failure, mark, pallor, project, rubbish, skin, student, supervise, supervision, supervisor, tutor, undergraduate, white, whites
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Student presentation overload (Rousse)
This was going to take forever. Every student that I had ever taught was lined up to give a 5-minute presentation. I most pitied those at the back of the queue. What a wait it would be for them!
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Tagged overload, presentation, presentations, queue, student, students, wait
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Condensed milk cures homesickness amongst British ex-pats (Rousse)
Whoever thought that I was qualified to examine a PhD in Latin on the French Enlightenment needed their head examining. Four of us gathered for the viva around a table in an over-heated room at the end of a long … Continue reading
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Tagged abroad, autumn, box, British, C18th, card, chair, condensed milk, controls, convener, convenor, cupboard, doctorate, eighteenth century, embassies, embassy, enlightenment, ex-pat, ex-pats, exam, examining, foreign, French, heat, heating, homesickness, Latin, milk, news, PhD, present, room, station, student, study, table, thesis, train, viva, work
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Nepotism in the workplace (Rousse)
There were three new members of the senior management team: me, RG-J, and a tall tanned blonde rower. The latter, whose name was Karen, turned up to work in a bikini and sunbathed on the lawn outside while the rest … Continue reading
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Tagged bad, behavior, behaviour, bikini, blonde, book, fireplace, first, fury, grey, insult, law, lawn, management, men, monograph, Mummy, nepotism, overweight, papers, publications, rage, rower, scream, senior, senior management, shriek, student, tan, tanned, woman, work, workplace
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The farmer PhD supervisor and Motown hopefuls (Rousse)
This was the strangest of PhD tutorials. The chair of the session sat at the front of a room and a full class of students, most of whom looked like undergraduates listening in on the discussions. What surprised me most … Continue reading
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Tagged class, classroom, discussion, discussions, doctorate, famer, girl, group, Motown, performance, PhD, room, student, students, supervisor, undergraduate, undergraduates
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