University is wasted on the young and stupid – the minimum age should be 30 🔵 My new rule: you need 10 years of life and work under your belt before you are allowed to embark on any tertiary education ✍️ Lucy Mangan for ipaperviews
Lucy Mangan: ‘The visits to the libraries and the lecture halls did not occur in the same proportions as the visits to the pubs and people’s bedrooms’
Recently, however, I was forced by circumstance to unearth my university days – the textbooks, the handouts, the essays – that have lived in my parents’ attic since the day they, three suitcases of washing and I came home the day after graduation a quarter of a century ago., of the very worst kind, it was. Confronted with memories of my 18-21-year-old self, rocketing mindlessly between libraries, lecture halls, pubs and people’s bedrooms like a demented pinball, I nearly wept.stupid.
It may be that my own experience of university was extreme and my reactions therefore skewed. I got into Cambridge because I ticked two diversity boxes, what with both my state education and my lady-parts.
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