However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
After college, I went to England and studied for a couple years.
I went to Cambridge University and was the first in my family to graduate.
I spent two years working on building sites, working on the railways as a guard and in a racing stable, exercising racehorses. I learnt to build relationships. The experience of not being stuck in some middle-class bubble taught me things that being at university hadn't.
Cambridge is really understanding and helpful, so that's been good, and it's just a case of trying to get stuff done when I am there and just being efficient with managing my time.
I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science.
I wasn't a particularly brilliant student, but on the other hand, I was very active in Student Union affairs and in student politics.
A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.
I did really well at school, and I would have loved to have gone to Oxford or Cambridge. I would have read English, and I'm really interested in politics.
In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.