Choose Your Own (Viva) Adventure, cont.

Diary of a Viva Ninja: Day 32

More ergodic displacement activity…

YOU have embarked on a quest to become an Academic of Phire-Top Mountain. You have entered the Chamber of Testing, and are engaged in a perilous Duel of Wits and Cunning with Level-7 Academic-mages. Hold onto your Pouch of Vulnerability… 

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The External offers you an ‘icebreaker’ – something about you favourite part of the research. Do you…

Talk about your long-distance walks?
Your illustrations?
Or discuss imagining it being finally over with?

 

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After the ‘warm-up’ the examiners lay in with some tough questions. Do you…

Start to hyper-ventilate?
Feel like you’re trapped in some recurring nightmare?
Use a LUCK point to enhance your SKILL and impress them with an eloquent answer?

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The examiners really start to drill down into the detail, referring to specific parts of your thesis. You feel your labour of love is being mercilessly torn apart. Do you…

Visualise your place of calm?
See it as an opportunity to engage in a critical dialogue?
Decide to play the Tragedian, and recite a soliloquy from Hamlet?

 

To be continued…