Hmmm..
..I went to Cambridge and didn't see this so much. Maybe it depends on the college. I chose a more progressive one (not for any political reasons - because it had a more balnced male:female ratio..)and had a lot of friends and acquaintances who had student loans and went to state school. A lot of the public school lot didn't have a lot of money either; granted there were a few double-barrelled surnames who wouldn't hesitate to bray about their cash and connections and treated the world like they owned it. However, for the most part, being flash and ignorant was very very uncool. I arrived a very sheltered public school student with a modest but comfortable allowance (it was £250 a month and I didn't struggle or feel the need for a loan)then left a nervous wreck the next year for feeling I wasn't cool and savvy enough. I was sectioned following a protracted psychotic episode that was kicked off by "friends" turning on me for being posh and a bit clueless or something. I don't think I was a nasty guy though and I wasn't flash or boastful. Moral of the story: Cambridge is full of nasty, arrogant twats of all social classes.
(lost, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 15:51, Reply)