My school had a bonkers rule book.\u00a0 It was huge and full of dotty laws and regulations.\u00a0 We had to learn it.\u00a0 It was only in adulthood we realised why: it emulated real life.\u00a0 It taught us both to live within a world of pointless and arbitrary laws, but also when and how to break them or get them changed.<\/p>\n
I’m doing my final degree module and, just like my other final year module, I am amazed at the questions people ask, and the incorrect answers they get, regarding rules they should have known from the start.<\/p>\n
Not knowing what happens if an assignment is under the word count, or over the word count, or the exact submission deadline, or how to get extensions, or what if you need longer still, and what happens if it is late and what happens if it is too rubbish to submit.\u00a0 Common questions from people, even at the end of their degree.\u00a0 But it’s all in the assignment rule book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My school had a bonkers rule book.\u00a0 It was huge and full of dotty laws and regulations.\u00a0 We had to learn it.\u00a0 It was only in adulthood we realised why: it emulated real life.\u00a0 It taught us both to live … Continue reading