Is it not a curious thing? A diploma is said to last for a life-time and yet one has to obtain it within a fixed deadline. This is the situation that persists not only with most courses offered at the University of Malta but many other universities around the world. It is a fact that almost every prospective student must contemplate prior to stepping up to the plate and many rise or fall based upon this factor alone.

No matter who you are and no matter what your background in life may have been, it is very likely - almost certain in fact - that you have had a brush with the education system. Depending upon your background and your personal predispositions you may also have experienced some of a wide range of frictional issues and events where you may have felt a desire to challenge the education system. Yet you knew that that was how the system worked and so the problem was naturally with yourself… or was it?

Ok, you are likely wondering why the latest posts bar this one is missing. Well… they ‘are’ missing… ~_~ The host botched up big time and I’ve practically lost all data for the past month.

I am determined to pick up the pieces - but I need ‘your’ help. If you can find ‘any’ scraps of information pertaining to my older posts then my recovery process would be infinitely less time-consuming.

The following are entries that I recall losing (in no particular order):