‘My students never knew’: the lecturer who lived in a tent “我的学生永远不会知道”：住在帐篷里的讲师
Aimée Lê: ‘It was cold. There were days when I remember waking up and my tent was in a circle of snow.’
Like many PhD students, Aimée Lê needed her hourly paid job – as an English lecturer – to stay afloat. But what her students never guessed was that for two years while she taught them she was living in a tent.
Lê decided to live outside as a last resort when she was faced with a steep rent increase in the third year of her PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London, and realised she would not be able to afford a flat and cover all her costs on her research and teaching income.
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‘My students never knew’: the lecturer who lived in a tent “我的学生永远不会知道”：住在帐篷里的讲师
Aimée Lê: ‘It was cold. There were days when I remember waking up and my tent was in a circle of snow.’
Like many PhD students, Aimée Lê needed her hourly paid job – as an English lecturer – to stay afloat. But what her students never guessed was that for two years while she taught them she was living in a tent.
Lê decided to live outside as a last resort when she was faced with a steep rent increase in the third year of her PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London, and realised she would not be able to afford a flat and cover all her costs on her research and teaching income.
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