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# #17. A PhD in Code-Switching for Hostile Space.
- URL: https://www.layersofzoe.net/17/
- Published: 2025-06-28T22:36:14.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-27T17:13:32.000Z
- Author: Layers of Zoe
- Tags: Signals, administered cruelty

The university had a department  
no one could find on the map.

Students were sometimes enrolled  
by mistake.

The syllabus contained only questions  
that had already ruined someone’s life.

Exams were silent  
and self-administered.

Those who passed  
were sent a certificate printed on edible rice paper,  
which they were required to eat  
in front of the registrar.

No one remembered what the degree was for,  
but rumours said it let you speak fluently  
in rooms where truth was unwelcome.