“… Anyway, I now have a new real life nightmare. I don’t get to the exam room to start the exam. The Cambridge system is that one examine from every ‘board’ turns up at every room that one of their paper is to be sat – in case a student has a question, or has spotted a mistake, or whatever. Anyway I was down to turn up at the Corn Exchange on Monday morning, nine o’clock, to be there for the first thirty minutes of the Part I Ancient History paper. The truth is that I completely forgot. It wasn’t that I was doing something fun …” (more)
[Mary Beard, A don’s life, 12 June]