{"id":6554,"date":"2025-08-31T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/?p=6554"},"modified":"2026-09-04T12:40:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T02:40:33","slug":"the-study-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/2025\/08\/the-study-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"The Study Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around me were the essentials of higher education: two monitors, highlighter pens, speakers, a giant King Julien mug requiring several hot-beverage refills a day, and a Maltese fertility goddess keeping watch over proceedings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tasmania featured heavily. Photos from Mum and my trip rotated across one screen, while a small Tasmanian Devil sat beneath the other as my unofficial UTAS mascot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Above the desk were magpies saying \u201cwardle oodle ardle woodle\u201d, a favourite photo of my husband with Spook and Ebony, a llama that vaguely represented Peru, and assorted objects collected over the years whose academic purpose was difficult to establish but whose presence was apparently essential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Winter study required a poncho, extra jumper and fingerless gloves. Concentration was maintained through soft Spotify playlists and the Pomodoro technique: 25 minutes of study followed by five minutes in which I could stretch, make tea, stare into space or wonder why strategic management required quite so much sociology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was cluttered, slightly eccentric and completely mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And somehow, from that little corner, a degree happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-duotone-dark-grayscale\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/UTAS20240320-11am-18-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"woman in graduation gown and mortar board accepting her degree from male vice-chancellor\" class=\"wp-image-6556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/UTAS20240320-11am-18-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/UTAS20240320-11am-18-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/UTAS20240320-11am-18-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/UTAS20240320-11am-18-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/UTAS20240320-11am-18-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/UTAS20240320-11am-18-820x547.jpg 820w, https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/UTAS20240320-11am-18-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is where I did most of my degree: an old corner desk that was never really designed for handwritten notes, but which I gradually turned into a small command centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6557,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6554\/revisions\/6557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}