Category: Hello Goodbye

Quitting Time

So, it’s that time of year again, when we all quit the routine of work, and pretend to be on vacation, but are in fact secretly working our tails off on writing/research projects (I’ve got three this summer), which will make us even more burned-out and miserable come September.  Don’t you just love it?  But the arrival of something resembling summer (climate change is not doing us any favours in Toronto) does mean putting this blog on hiatus for a

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Adieu, Mon Vieux, a la Prochaine

Since vacation time is upon us, we thought we’d share a few higher education-themed jaunts we’ve been dreaming of: 1) Phagwara, Punjab Phagwara is home to the best-monikered university in the world: Punjab’s Lovely Professional University. Yes, really, that’s what it’s called – it was founded by India’s Lovely group, which specializes in agricultural goods. This would be worth a trip just to say you’d been. If there’s a more awesomely-named university anywhere, we have yet to hear it. 2)

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