Academic Success Blog

“Revision is a search for closer and closer approximation of the truth you seek…you will never reach the perfect text you’re striving for, because it exists only in fantasy.  What matters is that you work your way toward that text, toward the truest narrative that you can achieve, one that speaks clearly and fluently to [...]

Last week, we ran a workshop on perfectionism at the Academic Success Centre.  The number of students who showed up was relatively small, but the issue is…HUGE and very, very complicated.  University in general—and U of T in particular—does seem to endorse the notion of perfection: the object of all our labours is the exquisitely [...]