Category: University

As an undergraduate attending seminars in law school, it sometimes seems as if we are in the midst of an ideological war, fought by unwitting operatives with a surprising amount of aggression. In a law school dominated by postmodern, culturally oppressed, marginalised, victimised, patronised, relativist, politically correct (few of whom are able to argue their… Read more →

The second day back has not proved nearly as tiresome. The repetitive drudgery of attending classes and travelling to and fro is beginning to impress itself upon me, and already the memories of entire days spent frolicking in the meadows are fading into oblivion; to be replaced by due dates, timetable clashes, and the insistent… Read more →

I was insouciant as I walked through the university gates, this morning. I hadn’t even opened my books since the last class of the previous semester, let alone done any study – not out of laziness or disinterest, but purely due to difficult reprioritisation necessitated by a multitude of tasks all requiring my attention. Nor… Read more →

1.25am and it’s first day of second semester here in blustery Melbourne. As bleary-eyed university students across the nation sleep soundly in their beds (or procrastinate, like I am, well into the night), the refuse bins in university grounds everywhere are, no doubt, being emptied in preparation for the hordes of first-week students that will… Read more →