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Marc Ellis

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1423 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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What a Lad
Marc Ellis- What a Lad

And that worked for me.

What a Lad
Marc Ellis- What a Lad

Three-day work week.

What a Lad
Marc Ellis- What a Lad

And I'm sort of trying to adhere to that these days too.

What a Lad
Marc Ellis- What a Lad

But I had a wonderful girl.

What a Lad
Marc Ellis- What a Lad

I won't mention names again, but her notes were impeccable.

What a Lad
Marc Ellis- What a Lad

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.

What a Lad
Marc Ellis- What a Lad

But she would have black pen for the headings, underlined, then green to make the key points, red for very important, and blue otherwise.

What a Lad
Marc Ellis- What a Lad

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.

What a Lad
Marc Ellis- What a Lad

And I had the ladies at Unicole, you know, wrapped around my fingers.

What a Lad
Marc Ellis- What a Lad

I couldn't borrow the photocopy, could I?

What a Lad
Marc Ellis- What a Lad

And I photocopied like 200 pages of notes and they were all written out.

What a Lad
Marc Ellis- What a Lad

So I just had to study the stuff in red or green, you know.

What a Lad
Marc Ellis- What a Lad

Just the key points.

What a Lad
Marc Ellis- What a Lad

That said, it took me five years to get the degree.

What a Lad
Marc Ellis- What a Lad

So even those notes didn't help.

What a Lad
Marc Ellis- What a Lad

But my typical week was trying to work out how best to rort the system, really, how best I could get a part.

What a Lad
Marc Ellis- What a Lad

But after three years, I got called into the proctor's office.

What a Lad
Marc Ellis- What a Lad

He said, look, if you don't pass this year, you're going to get kicked out of university.

What a Lad
Marc Ellis- What a Lad

Oh, really?

What a Lad
Marc Ellis- What a Lad

Well, in my first year, I'd got really close on everything, but I'd failed by like 2%.