Marc Ellis
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And I'm sort of trying to adhere to that these days too.
I won't mention names again, but her notes were impeccable.
And so she would use, I don't know how she ever did this, but I was busy scratching away the most illegible nonsense, which probably wasn't pursuant to what was being taught.
But she would have black pen for the headings, underlined, then green to make the key points, red for very important, and blue otherwise.
So I worked out pretty quickly that there's not much point in going to lectures, you know, when I could come and grab your notes.
And I had the ladies at Unicole, you know, wrapped around my fingers.
I couldn't borrow the photocopy, could I?
And I photocopied like 200 pages of notes and they were all written out.
So I just had to study the stuff in red or green, you know.
That said, it took me five years to get the degree.
But my typical week was trying to work out how best to rort the system, really, how best I could get a part.
But after three years, I got called into the proctor's office.
He said, look, if you don't pass this year, you're going to get kicked out of university.
Well, in my first year, I'd got really close on everything, but I'd failed by like 2%.