“Students (and ex-students) dream about exam disasters. I still occasionally wake up with the horror that I’ve just arrived in an exam room to find that it’s the wrong paper (I’ve revised for Latin Literature, but it’s Greek philosophy on the table). The lecturers’ nightmare is about something going terribly wrong when they are trying to perform in front of a hundred or so restless students. Most of these nightmares can come true …” (more)
[Mary Beard, A don’s life, 19 May]