It’s 11pm. The Prop A assignment deadline is fast approaching. Ding Ding. Another apologetic email arrives from the Course-Coordinator with about eight different fonts concerning the 3 mistakes in Question 1, the 7 in Question 2, and the 12 in the Week 8 lecture.

As the thought of ‘why the fuck are they assessing this?’ continues to circle your head, you realise you have a bigger problem at hand; the word limit for the assignment is a mere 8 words, including your name and student ID.

As you observe the 186-page dossier known as the past exam feedback sheet, you wonder if your law lecturer honestly thinks that you can write this assignment in less words than you’ve spoken to any woman in the past 3 months.

Broken English will have to do, you think, deleting any use of the word ‘the’, ‘they’, ‘him’, ‘her’, ‘law’, ‘legal’, ‘I’ ‘am’ ‘so’ ‘fucked’.

We contacted the dean of law, Patrick Parkinson, for a comment. He let out a wide smile, merely responding with two words: ‘Jason Chin’.

‘Fair enough’, we thought.

No more to come.