Fourth year student, Elliott Trumpet is confident the all-time academic comeback is happening.

For as long as anyone can remember, Elliott’s uni marks have looked like the MCU post-Endgame: mediocre and dull. His sky-high top-of-the-class marks in primary school with his mastery of colouring-in skills, the alphabet and the 8 times table being all but a distant memory now. Only a husk of this academic potential remained. Until now.

“This is it!” Elliot triumphantly declared. “This is the semester the academic comeback is finally happening!” His consistent 4s and 5s, with the occasional 2s and 3s, will be transformed into 6s and 7s. His stunning transformation and change in attitude can already be seen by his attendance at the first lecture, when lectures (and often tutorials) were an event Elliot rarely attended (he hardly even watched them online online). If this didn’t confirm Elliot’s intention to ‘lock in’ this semester his participation in tutorial the next day certainly did. It was like Elliot was a whole different person.

When confronted by the fact he had declared he’ll ’lock in’ for 6 semesters previously, and had failed to lock in each time, Elliot simply stated that this time will be different. “I’m for real this time, I can feel it.” There would be no more missing lectures and tutorials, no more refusing to read the weekly readings, no more doing the assignment in one night, no more skimming through notes the day of the exam being the only revision he did the whole semester. This time, he was serious.

UPDATE: Three weeks in, Elliot has returned to his usual habits of not buying the textbook, dropping his fourth subject and deleting the Duo app.