Picture a second-year philosophy student staring at a blank document titled "Free Will Essay." They know they care about the topic. They've read Kant, half of Sartre, and three different Stanford...
You can spot a generic graduate CV surprisingly quickly. The degree sounds respectable, the formatting is tidy, and every other person seems to be “hard-working”, “organised” and a “strong...
Three years into an engineering degree, there is a particular kind of frustration that can creep in when you open a blank CV.
You know you have done things. Lots of things, actually. You have...
You can spend an hour describing a task and still leave an assessor wondering what, exactly, you have demonstrated.
That sounds unfair at first. If you completed the work, followed the procedure...
Picture this: it's week three of first year, you've just sat through a two-hour lecture on differential equations, and you haven't seen a single picture of a wing yet. You came here to study...
Here's a scene that plays out in halls of residence up and down the country every week. A student opens the assignment brief, spots a few familiar numbers, remembers a formula from a lecture...