Well, I'm not sure I should be in here really but your pub crawl featuring the White Horse brought back some memories. I spent many evenings in there during 1989/90 "enjoying" the Tennants Extra at a very resonable £1.20 per pint if I remember correctly.

Does anybody actually go to lectures? Do people walk out of exams after the first 15 minutes? Do you have to get up at 4am (or stay up all night) to get a machine in the launderette? Does SWSS still exist and - if so - what are they occupying this week?

I don't really have much to say about this; moreover I probably don't qualify as being the typical maths student.

I remember talking to Ian Stewart; he was telling me how the maths society always had its ups and downs, periods of high activity and periods where all that happens were a few socials; it's good to know that it's a period of high activity nowadays, thanks to all the things we're doing and the fact that we have a magazine!

I just tend to spend my time doing maths, going to lectures (but not if they don't agree with my awakeness hours, which happen to be quite erratically distributed) and enjoying the fine discussion groups offered by the society and other great talks organised by the department.

About the easy to answer questions: I think you can only leave an exam after half an hour now, but you still see people leaving as soon as they can, I don't know why that would've changed. For the launderette, well, in my first year at Rootes, the launderette usually had some free space at the time when I used to go (around 11pm-midnight I'd say).

No idea about the SWSS - didn't know what it was until I looked it up right now.

It must be quite different now that things are in the new Maths Department though, as opposed to Gibbet Hill. I recommend watching G103 (http://o.tearne.org/G103/) if you haven't already, it gives quite a humorous account of the life of a maths student.