Before you realised that Oxbridge is a name for the two old universities what did you think it meant Piglet?

What did you think Imperial was?

Yeah baby!! 100% Gimperial!! I now live in Gaybridge (Cambridge) but the hallowed days or Dr Dave Hartley's lectures on Drosophila will never leave me. Where are you H?

I think Coastman and I are in the same boat really. You and I went to the same universities for UG and PhD right? What's with 'Coastman' by the way?

idiot

Maybe I could get some adivice: will the University of Ibiza let me have 4 labs and 15 research assistants in 24 years time when I have a PhD, maybe from Cambridge, Stamford or Yale. In this time I will have completed 29 research papers, 17 of which are in Nature, 8 in Cell. I wil however have a child, Amy, with shoulder length dark hair and aged 3 years 4 months. My wife will be pregnant again though, will that hamper my chances?

Sounds like you stand a good chance, go for it: UCL is 4th or 5th in the country. I did my B.Sc. at Imperial and got a 2:1. I'm now at Cambridge doing a PhD and I didn't do a masters. I didn't have any experience either (i.e. summer placements), just the degree.

you've got to be in it to win it..

Where did you do/are you doing your degrees?

I don't know I'm afraid, I will do on Wednesday. You know what they say...

Maybe it's like those bogus lottery scams. They'll tell you you have a PhD place and all you have to do to claim it is send them a cheque for £750!

Pay attention, this smells a little fishy, not even the good kind of fishy!

More shocking!

A shocking fart story. Shocking. I'm laughing as I type. Fantastic.

I suppose I'm lucky, I just ask and get. I don't even need permission to buy things unless it's over £1000 and because I order it myself I don't even need to wait for anyone else to do it for me. What sort of project are you doing?

Like where?

That was shocking. Just shocking.

Absolutely. London is much more fun than Oxford or Cambridge. It is the biggest city in Europe so I suppose it's no surprise.