The New Student
There is a theory that girls make better students than boys do. This the story of what happened to me when I started at college (OK - some details have been embellished here and there)... When I gained a place at University, my mother was worried about where I would live, and within a few weeks announced that she had arranged with a family friend for me to have a bed-sit. "Apparently there are a few other students in the house, so you won't be lonely," she explained. The weeks passed...