Student stories

[Jonny69]

It's been a few years now since I was a student first time around but I remember there were a few stories of student legend going round. I thought I might share them to see what the old greats were at your universities

The first one I ever heard was of a Scottish student who was at I think Cambridge because that's where I was when I heard the story. He had taken ill, ended up in hospital and they had diagnosed severe malnutrition. He couldn't cook but knew how to make porridge and knew that it was nutritious so at the beginning of the year stocked up on porridge oats. He lined the drawers in his room with greaseproof paper, poured the cooked porridge into them and every mealtime would cut a chunk out and re-heat it for his meal. Naturally it wasn't long before he was lacking vitamins and became ill.

At my own university there was a different story but again based on food. There had been a buy-one-get-one-free offer in the supermarket on pasta and pesto at the beginning of the year. One thrifty student had decided to buy his whole semester's worth of food at half price and loaded up on pasta and pesto on offer, and that's all he ate. It wasn't long before he ended up in hospital, not with malnutrition, but such bad constipation he was blocked solid. This was our warning about diet I guess

I have no idea if those two were true or whether they were just a yarn that became student legend, but the one that "actually happened" at my campus was the most grim...

The final year students had their own halls at the Brunel Runnymede campus. Up at the top of the halls there was a belfry and a student room but it was always locked as it was not occupied. According to legend a student had been driven mad by the bells ringing and hanged himself. After that it remained unoccupied and the room was permanently locked

Again, no idea if that's true or not, it was just the rumour that went round. What are your stories? Stories about schools welcome too

 

[Jonny69]

I meant like student legend/rumour "true story " stories. Otherwise I'd have told you about setting fire to the grass or the time my trouser legs ended up on top of the workshop block but I was somehow still wearing the top bit

 

[Jonny69]

In which case I won't mention the time we were shot at by the German navy,

Er, no, I think you'd better tell us about those now

 

[Jonny69]

I find it astonishing some people have gotten to the age of 18 without learning how to cook.

One of my mates was telling me about how they completely tinfoiled someones room when they went home for a couple of days.
EVERYTHING.
Individual grapes, unrolled the bog roll, foiled and rolled back up, bedsheets, matress. Everything in his room was foiled, some good pictures, i'll see if I can find them on facebook.

I did that one night. We found a massive roll of tin foil in his kitchen, industrial stuff or something but it was a huuuuuge roll and we wrapped everything in his room while he was out. And we hid it all over the place as well, like behind his posters and in books, so the prank would last until the day he left and beyond