What’s the point of the University?

What’s the point of the University?

One summer in the early 2010s, on a bleak, drizzly morning, I was running around Farringdon in a blind panic. During the final weeks of my undergrad degree, one of my exams had, bizarrely, been scheduled in a different part of London from the others, at a venue I didn’t even know existed. Making my way to this unfamiliar place, I became lost in a rabbit warren of alleys, tunnels and underpasses. I was late for the exam, got a bad mark, and ended…