A London body reports London and university overlap so extensively that new students spend a full term locating their actual building. Mock-news.
LONDON – A London academic body has confirmed that the relationship between London and university is so extensive that the city now contains roughly 40 higher education institutions, leading new students to spend significant portions of their first term locating their actual one.
London And University: A City With More Campuses Than It Has Decent Rents
The University of London alone is a federal institution containing dozens of colleges, a fact the invented Bureau of Academic Geography describes as “either an impressive achievement or a mild cartographic conspiracy.”
“The connection between London and university is ancient and magnificent,” said a spokesperson for the made-up Institute of Student Orientation. “It is also deeply, practically confusing. Every student arrives in London confident they know where they are going. Every student then spends two weeks being told they are at the wrong UCL building.”
The London And University Experience In Practice
The University of London’s central body – accessible via london.ac.uk, with campus life covered by Time Out London and the surrounding city navigated via Visit London – feeds into one of the world’s greatest concentrations of academic and cultural resources.
“The good news about London and university is that wherever you end up, something extraordinary is within walking distance,” the spokesperson said. “The V&A. The British Museum. A gallery, a library, a park, a river. The bad news is that your student house costs more than a modest mortgage in most other cities.”
The Bureau’s London census found that the combination of London and university produces, on average, one of the most richly confusing, culturally overwhelming and financially alarming experiences available to a person under 25, and that 94 percent of graduates would do it again without significant hesitation.
“London is the best possible place to study,” the spokesperson concluded. “It is also one of the most expensive. These two facts coexist peacefully in the prospectus and less peacefully in the bank account.”
The Bureau confirmed that the relationship between London and university remains one of productive tension, enormous opportunity, and a rent-to-loan ratio that future generations will discuss with a mixture of awe and deep personal grievance.
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