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Child off to University this year! Any one else going through this experience?


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Back in the day... in my first year at Uni, many of my fellow students would have their parents send them off with a huge supplies of essential foods - pasta, backed beans etc and would boost their supply as and when.

Sadly I can't provide much personal advice as I attended a London Uni and chose not to live on campus or anywhere else except home (mainly due to lack of funds, and didn't want to burden myself with a student loan). Deffo encourage your sprog to get an easy part time job to help when the money gets low tho. :))

Nooooo, no the medical tests.

I've a friend who's worked in the pharma industry, mostly in drug trials, for many years. He says all the good drugs are taken up in house. The ones left over for paid volunteers are referred to (quietly) as 2-headed monkey trials.

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