My experience of 1990s CS students (not me, but some housemates) was that at 8 a.m. they were more likely to be getting home from the computer labs than attending lectures.

Like me, Jack is erudite enough to know “the past is a foreign country” but not erudite enough to remember off the top of his head that it was L.P. Hartley who wrote it, in the first line of The Go-Between. Maybe I’ll remember that from now on.

Oh, and the name of the university is artfully concealed on Jack’s ID card.