Today I got my results for this academic year. I failed.

I’ve failed before, time and time again in fact. I haven’t had a single semester yet that didn’t require resit exams in the summer. This time I have two of those, and this year obviously I am in no frame of mind to either sit down and study or sit down and take an exam. I’ve written to my tutor briefly describing my extenuating circumstances, but I expect they’ll need to know more.

This summer I had...