Are you suffering from academania?

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Reader's comments (2)

#1 Submitted by graff.... on December 23, 2021 - 2:37pm

Is this a parody? What is new here? What is an actual studied and diagnosed condition? Come on!

#2 Submitted by ... on December 23, 2021 - 3:04pm

Found this amusing and mainly true. This morning I learned what the USS pension scheme commutation factor is .

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