Philosophy Thoughts as and when

Speaking of emails, I received an email and letter on 22/03/12 from someone in the wider college, who was also responsible for exams, which I found very disturbing and confusing, based as it was, on lies, character assassination and threats that a formal complaint could be brought against me which could result in me being thrown out of college. Who was going to bring this formal against me? That was left vague. I suppose he wants me to think it'll be Susan James. But that couldn't be the case because we didn't have an issue to solve and we hadn't sat down together to attempt to resolve it between us before taking it to that formal stage. He should know that. So he's unprofessional in suggesting this was even possible because this is a prerequisite before submitting a formal complaint. I know it and she knows it. The email was also strangely signed because there are ink dots around the signature that usually arise from a stamp. It was supposedly signed by someone fro...

I had to chase up my second referee because he was disrupting my MRes postgraduate application to an EU uni by ignoring my email a few weeks earlier. Here's my 1st June 2016 email to him: This is the factually inaccurate, rude, totally inappropriate email response I received back from the referee:    Well, at least I assume it was written and sent by my referee because it was sent from his email account and signed by him.  However, it contains information that he should know to be false yet he writes it anyway and shows total ignorance of our previous emails in 2014. On the 13th of February 2014, he emailed: So here we see that in 2014 I have asked him if he's prepared to be a referee and he's already agreed to be second referee yet in 2016 claims I haven't "followed the conventional route of asking me whether I can provide a reference". So this email is falsely claiming I haven't done something I have! Nobody submits a "reference anonymously" - ...

Even though I had already sought potential, prospective supervisors with whom to do a PhD over 2 years previously, and had come up with very good, original proposals, my pre-applications for a supervisor didn't go as well as I expected. 😟 Nonetheless, in 2016, I accepted a sudden invitation to apply for a M.Res in Europe. At this stage, I had already written and presented one paper which I had thought up, researched and written as a solo work and submitted 2 detailed, long abstracts to 2 other conferences, one on Spinoza the other on Shepherd in the autumn of 2015.🙂 It should have been straightforward. 🙂 I filled in the relevant details on my online application system, fulfilled most of the necessary sections including my transcript document of the official breakdown of my exam marks, which they didn't understand anyway 🤦(they didn't even know what a 2:1 degree means or how to convert UK grade marks into their grades - so much for being  in the EU!) in addition to scann...

I've written out my Home-Education background because I think there are many misconceptions about it, especially since I'm atypical. I wasn't hot-housed. I didn't sit at home sweating 😤 😵 over my maths ➕➖➗✖ ☑ π√±  📝 so that I could go to Oxford University at 12 years old to study for a maths degree! 😟 As you can see below, I had a very broad education and attended many classes as a child and teenager (both peer group and adult education classes). So I wasn't just taught by my mother, I came across many teachers (and quite a few tutors [for languages up to and incl. A Level: Spanish, French, German, all native speakers and music: cello, violin, piano] and tennis coaches) with different teaching styles. As a result, I met children, teens and adults from a variety of backgrounds and learnt to be confident socialising with everyone, rather than just stuck with a small clique as is typical with school children. In my case, home-education gave me the opportunity to ex...