We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful

It must be something in the air. Perhaps it's the smell of degree results coming out, or the fear involved in that process, but in the past week I've run into 3 former students. All very different - 2 got 1sts, the other a PhD - but they are all doing well, and contrary to the title of this post I'm delighted.

Degree result time is a stressful period - not only for the students! Everything is agonised over, argued over, discussed and dissected. Then a month later - graduation, and the feeling that your children are leaving home. Sometimes you never see them again, but when you do it's nice to find out what they're doing, to see them developing, changing.

Then I think back and remember that it was once me...