Welcome to Platform Nine and Three Quarters, Sub-Juniors.

One year later, we have looked back at our stay in this college, and we wonder how much we have learned from the college, and how much of the college's facilities we have extracted for personal gain. The sight of juniors dashing around wondering who scored the highest marks for the recent Chemistry mini-sub-quiz is always a most convincing way to tell yourself the students here really mean it when they sing "Study is the road to truth" every week during college assembly. (FTSJ: Yes we HAVE an assembly.)

But seriously, do we ever torment ourselves with the inevitable question: What has the college learnt from us?

Do the fabled Oxbridge, or for that matter, any university worth its weight in textbooks, in the UK, while away precious interview hours searching for the most able student, the one who

Or do they yearn for the one magical child whom they know will benefit THEM the most?

There are more students than universities, thus university seats are limited resources no amount of existing family wealth can purchase. Are you applying to a university where you can bring out the best in yourself, or is the university searching for the student who can bring out the best in the university?

All things for batches past, present and future to mull about when the allure of acing examinations die down as you realise everyone else here's doing exactly the same thing as you and that you are rewarded once you get an A, nothing more.