About Me
My name is Martin ( @theuniversityblog.co.uk ) and I rather like higher education. If I can find an angle on the academic, I’m interested. I was greedy and had a wealth of university experience both before and after my own time as an undergraduate. The first knockings of my uni-fest started in the 1996/7 academic year and I was still embracing academia until the 2002/3 year. It ended at that point due to various aspects of the outside world catching up with me…I got married, I started a full-time job that was non-university related, my last main group of uni friends were leaving that year, etc., etc.
During the time that I was officially deemed a student (1998-2001), I didn’t just leave it at studying and socialising. Among other things, I:
- Became a Senior Student
- Was elected a Final Year Rep
- Helped in founding an English Society
I didn’t much like to sit still.
And here we are again. In October 2007, I returned to a focus on higher education. And not just with this blog, either. I started an administrative post that will hopefully begin a lengthy time within HE. It’s great news and I hope to serve academia proudly. Bring it on!
But no university would be such an institution without YOU, the students. So I decided it would be a good idea to get involved at all possible angles (if that’s physically possible). One of my bright ideas was to start this blog. Now for the hard part…to make it work well.
3 Comments
16 December, 2007 at 4:32 am
Martin,
Like the new theme, much brighter and cleaner - be better reading the posts on this theme.
7 January, 2008 at 5:28 am
Good looking site with lots of good posts on the university experience. Catchy header too.
7 January, 2008 at 9:34 am
Thanks very much for the kind comments.
@Ron, the image I use is some graffiti I saw on my travels when I was with a load of uni friends. So it reminds me - in its quirky, indirect way - of university every time I look at it.
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