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A perfect storm

Ah, the start of teaching. Fresh, yet-to-be-jaded faces waiting outside the lecture theatre 10 minutes before the scheduled start of class. That may not last, at least not for everybody.

I predict the ones who do continue to arrive early for class will be perfectionists. Perfectionism seems to help some folk during the first year. There are two types: adaptive perfectionism, characterised

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