1/: Hi Twitter - I'd be very grateful if people could share this thread! TL;DR: A bag was stolen from me in Durham yesterday and it contained nearly all my notes and work for my finals, which are in six weeks. I'm hoping they dumped the bag/contents and someone may find them.
2/: Yesterday (Sat 7th April) between 12 and 3pm our car was broken into in Durham in the car park in Pimlico, just off Prebends Bridge. My rucksack with my laptop, some other electronics and a lot of notebooks and folders containing two years’ worth of uni work was stolen.
3/: Finals are in six weeks’ time and I really need my lecture, tutorial and revision notes. I am hoping that whoever stole my bag will have removed the electronics and then dumped the rest somewhere - we found my pencil case in a nearby bush but unfortunately nothing else.
4/: If you live in or around the Durham/Sunderland area, I’d be really grateful if you could keep an eye out for the bag or the notebooks and papers (description below), especially in bins, secluded wooded areas or general wasteland.
5/: Bag: dark blue rucksack with bright flowers. Contents: laptop with charger, headset with mic for my assistive note-taking tech, medication, 2 large and 2 small spiralbound notebooks with lecture and reading notes, purple A5 notebook with my dissertation reading notes, plans
6/: and outlines (deadline for this diss in two weeks), black A5 bullet journal with two years’ worth of work and personal planning, heavily annotated philosophy books (Nicomachean Ethics and Kant’s Groundwork), several notepads with revision notes, loose papers and stationary.
7/: If you find anything, it would be fantastic if you could hand it in to @DurhamPolice (I've reported the crime to them), or send me a message or email (stolenuniwork@gmail.com).
8/: In the admittedly unlikely case that the thief reads this: please consider handing in the bag or at least the notebooks! I can replace electronics but I can’t replace that work, not this close to exams.
9/: To students, esp Ox PPE: my notes for Ethics, Aristotle’s Nic. Ethics, Theory of Politics, Philosophy of Religion, Political Sociology, International Relations and IR betw. Two World Wars were in that bag. If you have any notes on those, I'd be very very grateful for them!
10/: Please please retweet/share and thank you so much! <3
could you perhaps RT this, please? Would be very grateful!
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I'm so so grateful to everyone sharing this and giving advice, especially to those who have said they live in the area and can have a look around! You are all such wonderful people, thank you so much <3
It's such a testament to the power of twitter that so many people are helping me - my friend has joked that we should be tagging tweets with #SaveAMsDegree 😆Thank you all so much! ❤️
An update for all the lovely people who have been asking: nothing has been found yet unfortunately (although with this many people helping I have hope!) but people who are doing/have done the same course as me have been sending me their own notes which is incredibly kind ❤️
