…at the University where I worked for four years until 2003 was a strange feeling this afternoon.
The place has changed so much since and an enormous amount of money has been invested in the campus. Looks great I have to say, but particularly the "Student Villages" where it seems you can now spend three years totally alienate from the rest of the city.
There are bars, clubs, banks, shops, gyms, swimming pools, cinemas, cafes, restuarants... no need to go "off campus" at all, which really seems to defeat the object of getting used to an independent life in a new city.
Or perhaps that's the whole point?
That's why we go on to build similarly isolated 'apartment complexes' with restuarants and shops underneath for these people when they become high-earning graduates.
heaven forbid anyone should have to interact with each other or the environment these days...

But Biscuit was impressed enough to be convinced this is where dshe wants to come to Uni, and I have now decided to encouorage that focus and look forward to having her kind of here or here-abouts for a couple of years.
Philosophy is a had subject though and requires AAB at A level, so she needs to get her head down and make sure she reaches the grades as expected next summer.

Scary how amazingly amazing some of the people look.
Especially the female ones...