Title: You Must Be Very Intelligent
Description: "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. After all, she knows that only the extraordinarily learned and the astonishingly intelligent ever hold chairs and professorships... 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..."--Page [4] of cover.
Subjects: Education, research, Fiction, Doctoral students, Autobiographical fiction, University of Edinburgh