The article reflects on the experience of attending university open days and contrasts the past and present. It illustrates how the author and their sister would navigate these visits without parental guidance, relying more on spontaneity and limited resources like prospectuses. The author reminisces about the lack of internet access, which made it difficult to explore different locations effectively. Today's students are often restricted to having only one parent attend, showcasing a shift in expectations around these significant educational milestones.
What kind of guest, exactly, did they have in mind? They mean a parent. Didn't you go with your parents? Oh boy, no, we did not.
The flaw in this plan was that we didn't have the internet then, so there was no way of knowing, after a busy day in Birmingham, what Birmingham was actually like.
We spent an awesome amount of time and not negligible money in the Body Shop, freestyling wildly based on what we gathered from the prospectus.
I had adventurous friends, who took the money to go to, say, Sheffield and then went somewhere completely different, which didn't even have a university.
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