University on Morgan Bye

You deserve better

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:45:00 -0400

This post was originally written in July 2016 but was never published. Nearly a decade later it still rings true. I revisit it now for anyone still in grad school, thinking about life outside.

“You don’t climb mountains without a team… you don’t climb mountains without being prepared… you never climb a mountain on accident.”

– Mark Udall, US Senator

Stop me if you’ve heard this before.

Every day you go to work. You don’t just give your time, your attention… you give a piece of yourself. Sometimes you work late and lose track of time because you’re too invested. The people who love you say you work too much. They don’t get it.

The world is going to university

Fri, 05 Jun 2015 21:35:00 +0000

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

– Kofi Annan

In the last few years I have experienced many universities, all of them are building. New campuses, new buildings, more accommodation. From the casual observers perspective it looks like a great time to be in the education game.

I recently got to quiz a Vice Chancellor about why there was so much construction in his university. I asked why exactly he felt the need for constructing an entirely new university village on campus grounds?

Post results

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:42:00 +0000

So, after the weekend in Manchester and having watched lady E run the race for life we have returned to Nottingham. So we only have a day or two now until I go off on Doug’s stag weekend and after that its a week in Sherringham on the Norfolk coast with JC and company. Which should be a nice relaxing break from the running around that has been accustomed in previous months. As soon as we get back from that lady E has some work experience to see if she wants to teach and then its practically graduation, which means leaving Nottingham.

Nearly there

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:30:00 +0000

So, today is Wednesday. And university is all but past tense. He says with his fingers crossed, for Friday we find out if I actually have to do a viva next week. Which if I do then there shall be 30 minutes of hell next week on Tuesday or Wednesday but then it should all be over.

For those not in the know, a viva is essentially an interview where they ask you questions from any topic that you have studied in your time at university. Typically given to students that are borderline candidates (ie 59%), to determine whether you are actually worthy of being bumped up to the next grade boundary. So potentially a very stressful procedure.

A new beginning

Wed, 27 May 2009 12:25:00 +0000

Hello and welcome to my new blog. Some may remember my original blog that was hosted for many years on a certain social networking site. Unfortunately it was lost to the ether as a result of an argument with a particularly crazy girlfriend and as a result of the falling standards of said social networking site to a level where everything was in pastel colours and aimed at telling the world what band you thought was hot.