{"id":194,"date":"2011-09-07T09:29:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T08:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialscienceresearchfunding.co.uk\/?p=194"},"modified":"2011-09-07T09:29:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T08:29:46","slug":"university-life-why-now-is-the-wrong-time-of-the-academic-year-to-get-anything-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialscienceresearchfunding.co.uk\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"University Life: Why now is the wrong time of the academic year to get anything done…."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Better luck next year?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… and why that’s true for absolutely any value of “now”…..<\/p>\n

September
\n“It’s the start of the academic year soon, everyone’s concentrating on preparing their teaching”<\/p>\n

October
\n“It’s the busiest time for teaching.\u00a0 I’ve got 237 tutorials this week alone”<\/p>\n

November
\n“I’ve got about 4,238 essays to mark.”<\/p>\n

December
\n“It’s nearly Christmas, nothing gets done at this time of year”<\/p>\n

January
\n“I’ve got sixty thousand exam scripts to mark”<\/p>\n

February
\n[See October]<\/p>\n

March-April
\n“With the Easter break coming up, well…”<\/p>\n

May
\n[See January, but with added Finalist-related urgency and some conferences]<\/p>\n

June-August
\n“Conference season…. annual leave…. concentrated period of research in Tuscany<\/del>“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… and why that’s true for absolutely any value of “now”….. September “It’s the start of the academic year soon, everyone’s concentrating on preparing their teaching” October “It’s the busiest time for teaching.\u00a0 I’ve got 237 tutorials this week alone” November “I’ve got about 4,238 essays to mark.” December “It’s nearly Christmas, nothing gets done … Continue reading “University Life: Why now is the wrong time of the academic year to get anything done….”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frustrations","category-university-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t