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It's the best I've seen. My cousin went to Royal Holloway to study English literature (before becoming an RAF air traffic controller, stationed for some reason in the USA)! She visited us while she was there, when we lived in Surrey (close to Egham) in the 1980s. I visited it in and remember delving into an original multi-volume Dr Johnson Dictionary they had on the shelf in the library!

It's certainly appears much better than Surrey University in Guildford and Gloucestershire Uni in Cheltenham where I went, which are more like run-down comprehensives, renamed colleges. I fell in love with Surrey Uni during an open-day they held in the maths department during A-levels in 1989. They gave several really exciting maths lectures in the auditorium as a sales gimmick; when you enrolled a year later you first found that the accommodation was oversubscribed, and secondly you got brain dead lectures on Fortran computer programming that wouldn't have been out of date in 1965.

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