Things that come immediately to mind in my own life from the past year, that have probably changed me forever.

- The rise in academic, cultural and intellectual fraudulence.
- My eventual, long-overdue rejection of epistemic relativism.
- My being accused of libel in a Creative Writing assignment - never name a member of staff in a short story wherein he or she is beaten to death with a hammer whilst masturbating a student.
- My heightened perception of careerism; the absence of genuine passion for what people do, sacrificed increasingly for the ladder of life.
- Hierarchical bullshit, everywhere.

Oh, and people's continuing misspellings of its and it's.