Students Stories

Prior to joining the police, I held a teaching certification, but I quickly became disinterested in the classroom and made the decision to pursue a career change as a police officer. After twenty-five years in the police, I went into the training department and helped other officers by using my teaching credentials.I kept up my teaching certifications with the open university as a safety precaution in case my law enforcem...

The Sexual Revolution? I guess it had been around for a while by the early 1970s, but it didn’t seem to offer much to a working-class, rather ordinary-looking girl like me. By the time I was sixteen and approaching the end of my sophomore year, my sexuality was blooming, Yes, I did find outlets for expressing that side of myself. However, it didn’t involve having a boyfriend, at least not that year. I’m Chloe Mangano, and...

That September, I noticed Clarissa sitting in a student center lounge, smooching with some guy. I noted that he was considerably taller and more 'buff' than I was. She saw me looking at her. In fact, I wanted to be noticed by her. When she turned my way, she mouthed the words fuck you. Then she stuck her tongue out at me. I immediately left to check the bins of our rival newspaper, The Campus. The first issue of the term...

In the week following that problematic Circle Line tour, my attempt to play hard-to-get failed. Margery had easily seduced me – more than once – on the following Thursday. I knew I was folding under the pressure of her charms. As a seventeen-year-old guy, and not a particularly physically impressive one at that, I was getting more sexual stuff than I had ever imagined I’d have at that point in my life. I doubted that many...

In June 1975 I briefly – for a single afternoon – was with a woman I still think of as “the hippie girl.” And no, it was not a conventional one-day stand. She didn’t refer to herself by that term. I doubt there had ever been a large number of young people who truly were “hippies” or in the New Left as a dedicated way of life. What there had been was a wide dissemination of those ideas to people who dropped in and out or w...

John lost his wife in a car accident and was left to bring up their daughter alone. Lexi was nine at the time of the crash, so John was left to bring her up through puberty and everything a teenage girl goes through. Lexi worked hard at school, and John did his best to help when he could, but it was apparent that she had her mother's brains for economics, whereas John was mechanically minded. She passed all her exams and...