Sparked by a random song lyric, I've spent a fair amount of the past few days reading back through various text archives I have from 1997-8, the second half of my time as a student. Online diaries, messages exchanged with friends; that sort of thing.

I understand it's traditional to look back on one's time at university and see it as the best years of one's life, and indeed that's what I find myself thinking. So I thought I'd muse a bit about how and why that's the case.