Anecdotally, it seems to be borne out by my own experience as an academic. Weâre having to make a lot of allowances for students suffering stress, clinical anxiety, depression, etc.
The tempting thing is just to say âman upâ and deal with it. Certainly, that is the reaction of some of my colleagues who, when we discuss this, roll their eyes and say âback in my day blah blah blahâŚâ. I confess that when a student comes to see me about this, my hidden reaction is similar. But then, when I was a student, just getting a degree was fine. Now, if they donât get a 2:1 they regard themselves as a failure.
I guess the expectations, both in their student/work life and in their social lives are enormous and far more intense than anything I or my peers had to deal with.
As a parent of young kids, I wonder what I can do to help them. Or maybe I shouldnât. Maybe I should just leave them alone and let them deal with it. Maybe too much interference from parents is part of the problem.
As we got off our plane today my partner showed me a news article about an incident in London today. When we got in a few hours later it was rolling news. I commented to him that I thought this may be a bit ott as it could have been a traffic accident. I understand that the use of vehicles has been used recently but we need to be a little less quick to have rolling news and panic. Or is it just me thinking that? So it seems it wasnât the terrorist incident that many people thought.
The people in the house opposite have no blind in their bathroom and are constantly in there. Itâs almost like they want me to masturbate over the blurred images of their naked bodies, like Japanese porn.
Itâs definiately not under the radar. One news show interviewed the deputy prime minister (or something similar) of Malta last night. She was investigating quite a lot of dodgy people.
So she wrote an article that was published in the US bringing attention to a fuel smuggling racket from Libya via Malta and into Europe, and possible links to people smuggling. A former Maltese International Footballer has been arrested by Italian Police.
So you have âwar-lordsâ in the mess that is Libya and the Mafia in Sicily and go and write a story about it. Nope nothing coud go wrong with that as a career path choiceâŚ
Obviously from here we have seen that steps are being taken within our neighbour. We are aware of the general plan (so different from you lot - having a plan for the future eh)
But this is a very interesting interview. It asks many questions, and I am sure some on here will have really hilarious quips to come back with.
But the 30 years thing IS interesting and contextual and could benefit some discussion that I wonât join or start a thread on
