White on Red cover of 'Academic Diary Or Why Higher Education Still Matters' by Les Back

Letter to a new student 1. Listen but don't be silent 2. Care about your grades but don't make them your only goal 3. Read and buy books 4. Don't try and do it all the night before 5. Don't be just a consumer 6. Follow your interests (Les Back, pp 17-24)

Season's Greetings from #PACEspace {JM}

Wishing you all 🕊️, rest, good health, and space to think.

Signing off until January 2025 with some words of hope and wisdom from #AcademicDiary on why #HigherEducation still matters.

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