i'm going to tell you.
have you ever had a conversation that ended "but don't tell your dad" or but don't tell her"? i certainly used to. it didn't help me long term as i had to relearn that when there is a problem, certainly in a relationship, the only person who will help sort the situation is the person with whom the problem is. sorry, i know it's hard, the only constructive way to sort a problem out is to talk to the person concerned.
it's not particle physics.
i have a dissertation presntation on thursday so obviously today i had to go in to return a borrowed book to the person who was not in yesterday to receive the book.
from the book delivery, my time at uni was unhappy. not in an unsetting incident kind of way, but a succession of things that mount to an unhappy state of mind.
and i'm going to tell you as i actually can't tell the person concerned as the person doesn't exist, it's actually a collective known as an institution. and as such i feel justified in writing it here.
there are pressures over space and the usage of it. yes, there are people in "managerial" roles that would rather see a desk and a personal computer with a person working at it, than an open space with work in progress on the floor, walls and easels with no one to be seen as that's the way that art sometimes appears and actually works. those in "managerial" roles pressure lecturing staff, that pressure gets transferred to us the students and suddenly there is an uncomfortable situation. i have talked to a member of staff on another course, it's not just fine art.
and then i hear about our second year that have had to deliver a module without making the work. i don't know the full storey, needless to say the buildings we used are now part of a building programme.
which takes me onto having to ask why contractors are using the student refectory, when they have their own welfare facilities. at least by talking to them, i have made my point. they did eventually see mine.
the great thing about the university is that there is a support mechanism in place to help students. a bit like an art project to help residents affected by a regeneration project. the residents anxiety and unhappiness being generated by the regeneration agency.
so take the family model of keeping information from other family members as there is a percieved notion of the recipient not liking the information, scale it up to institution size and scale it up again to country size, what do we get ? i haven't fully researched that yet. my expected conclusions are unclear. what i would hope is that it wouldn't be a country in which the people running the place clearly are incapable, yet no one says anything about it.
