Academic life has many highs and lows.

For the past few weeks I’ve been knee-deep in marking across several different modules as I struggle to make myself more ‘employable’ as an academic, while trying to earn enough money to keep a roof over my head. In the last two weeks I have fought my way through:

• 80 x 1,500-word essays in Marketing 101
• 12 x 1,500-word essays in English 100
• 146 exam papers of 500–1,000 words in Marketing 222

All in all, this comes in at around 211,000 words – or two average-length novels.