I've just received a great e-mail from an old friend of mine back home telling me her boyfriend has proposed. For some odd reason this reminded me of something I've read in two of those 'How to do a PhD' books (can't remember the titles).
Both books said that for a good relationship, a PhD candidate should really only get involved with another PhD student because only they would understand the strains and pressures of a doctorate degree. Personally I think this is codswallop (there's more to a relationship than your state of education), although, looking around the chemistry department at Nottingham, a lot of people have paired off (PhD students hand in hand, bless :-) I was just wondering what other people's opinions were on this?