CDT Student Away Day - February 2025 - Gabriella Williams
On the 26th of January, I attended my first student CDT representative meeting, and it was there that Stephen Cook, Taylor Robinson, and I agreed to co-host the 2025 student away day event on the 24th of February 2025. As each week was rapidly going by, drip drip dripping like water drops from a semi-closed bathroom tap, we were under time constraints as to how we would organise the event. We sent out surveys and Google polls about what topics people wanted to discuss regarding the CDT procedures and the journey of embarking on a PhD. Eventually, we were able to create an agenda on the topics that CDT students were most concerned about. The weeks were fast approaching, and suddenly, it was the 24th of February. It seemed like the concept of time had become more of an alien idea as I and other PhD students continued to suffer under the hustle and bustle of neo-liberal, techno-feudalist capitalism of western society. Unfortunately, I couldn’t attend in person, but I did attend online, an...