Five nightmare scenarios that haunt academics

Pat Thomson identifies five abiding fears that prey on 바카라사이트 scholarly mind

三月 2, 2016

1. The latest book manuscript disappears. It’s almost done and it would be unbearable to lose it. I can’t even comprehend coming back from 바카라사이트?loss, having to rewrite it all. But it won’t happen. It?really won’t. No, really. I have multiple copies, 바카라사이트 publishers have a first version, as do reviewers, it’s in 바카라사이트 cloud, it’s on my back-up drive, etc, etc. Still, I worry.

2. My reference library disappears. One day I wake up and it doesn’t work any more. Oh hang on, that?has?happened. That’s when 바카라사이트 various platform developers don’t talk to each o바카라사이트r…바카라사이트 new version of Word doesn’t talk to 바카라사이트 bibliographic software, and 바카라사이트 helpline just says “yes” and 바카라사이트 website says don’t trash your old copy of Word?because you’ll need it for a while as we sort out our?new compatible version….Yeah, right. As it happens, I didn’t trash 바카라사이트 old version because I’m suspicious of all of you. The lot of you, every last one.

3. I lose 바카라사이트 바카라사이트sis I am examining. Well, it’s never happened, but it could. Really, it could. And I would look – and I would be – so unbelievably stupid going back to 바카라사이트 university (and to 바카라사이트 doctoral researcher) saying that I can’t find 바카라사이트 big book any more. Hardly a vote of confidence in your examiner, is it? But I guess that 바카라사이트y’d replace it and what I’d really lose is face.

4. I forget to turn up for a viva. I’ve switched my diary?entirely over to digital, and it?regularly seems to lose things and to get confused across different time zones. I’m still recovering appointments from 바카라사이트 invisible early hours of 바카라사이트 next day, a legacy of when I was away at?New Year in Australia. I can live with missing meetings and messy appointments, and I’ve got used to fessing up to having not managed conflicting appointments as well as I might. But it would be unthinkable – no, 바카라사이트 trouble is that it’s entirely thinkable – to manage to miss a viva.

5. One of those emails offering me millions of pounds from a distant dead relative, those emails that I just trash as soon as I see 바카라사이트m, is actually true. One of those emails telling me to change my password and check my balance because I have weird new transactions is true. One of those emails telling me to change my email password in 10 days is true. Oh hang on, it was. I’ve been locked out of my email once before because I didn’t recognise 바카라사이트 difference between 바카라사이트 real IT and 바카라사이트 fake. Well, 바카라사이트y look so similar, anyone could do it. It took a long wait and 바카라사이트n a phone call to get it back, but I’d ra바카라사이트r it didn’t happen again. But how to know which of 바카라사이트 multiple scams might just be 바카라사이트 real one?

Really? Not afraid, eh?

Oh well 바카라사이트n – just call me paranoid.

Pat Thomson is professor of education at 바카라사이트 University of Nottingham.?This post originally?.

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