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Despite a ludicrous intake of Irn Bru (a chemical drink unique to Scotland) along with mountainous amounts of fried pizza and dubious frat-ish parties, I successfully defended my thesis in 2011.įeeling like a lost soul, I backpacked round South America, not knowing what would or should come next. Having acquired a taste for travel and cultural enrichment, and perhaps a bizarre yearning to return to drizzle, I moved to the wonderful, historic city of Edinburgh, capital of Scotland, to start my PhD. Six amiable years later, blurred by pub visits and lengthy ‘work’ sojourns in China and Spain, I graduated with an MSc in molecular biology and was increasingly gripped by science. Unfortunately, I felt slightly bored and wet and steered my studies towards microbiology which, thankfully, entailed a roof over my head during experiments.
One of the first-year courses entailed sitting for hours in dreary drizzle to watch geese pick grass. I matriculated at the University of Groningen and studied biology. When life became meaningful (though not necessarily better), I dreamt about travelling the world as a field biologist.Īt the age of seventeen, I swapped village life for a university town 20 miles up the road. As a child I mainly caught frogs and leapt over ditches. I was born April, 1983, in a small village in the economically dead North East of the Netherlands. This is Karin’s humorous story, but it is also the tragic story of the modern European university system where money and power are the amoral Gods, and the noble search for truth quietly atrophies. It is a warm-hearted story of disillusionment, wherein passion and innocence are merrily bludgeoned by big egos, ludicrous farce, tawdry corruption, pimped-out brains and the sheer unreality of trying to be a grown-up in a brat’s world… This witty, warts-and-all tale of postgrad life in the august University of Edinburgh will strike a chord in anyone who has ever aspired to life in the ivory tower. She knows researchers are idealists yearning to enrich the stock of human knowledge… She knows university is the apotheosis of civilised culture… She knows… very little… After all, she knows that only the extraordinarily learned and the astonishingly intelligent ever hold chairs and professorships. When Karin enters a high-ranked university to start her PhD she is brimming with hope and positively overflowing with grit determination to prove she is worthy. Part-memoir and part-exposé, this book is highly entertaining and unusually revealing about the dubious morality and desperate behaviour which underpins competition in twenty-first century academia. You Must be Very Intelligent is the author’s account of studying for a PhD in a modern, successful university.
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