Last teaching of 2025 done

It’s done for 2025! I’ve had my last in person student interaction for the year. The last thing I did was have a chat about one of my assignments with a student who had had some outside stuff to deal with, and had to do this assignment late. Before that, I had a whole load of student presentations. And that went quite well. 

A mud volcano. There was a student presentation about them. Picture by Nick Taylor.

When it was done I had to make sure all marks and feedback for the presentations were online and available. And then I could spend the last working hours of the year getting to the backlog of other things that needed doing. A lot of that was to do with academic integrity. But also some other things.

By now the University is closed, and it won't open until January 5. Then there will fortunately be a bit of time to prepare for the new semester, because the students first have their exams. Lectures will start after that, in late January. And then it's full on until the end of term in spring! And then we'll have done another academic year!