Postgraduate Degrees = More beer?

Oxford, England -- Visiting Dr. Ole a number of years ago at Princeton, I was struck by the so-called "D-Bar," an on-campus bar specifically for grad students who would congregate there and drink copious amounts of extremely cheap beer. At Princeton, there was still money exchanging hands.

Here at Oxford, they've improved on the D-Bar: at the in-college Nuffield bar, which is really just a room filled with booze nestled amid the grad student and post doc housing, all you have to do is record the alcohol you've injested in a book (beer is around 2£, and crisps and Kit-Kats are 50p), and at the end of the term, the College may or may not charge you for what you've drunk. Of course, the more you drink, the harder it is to accurately record what you've drunk, even if you're an economics post doc at one of the most prestigious universities in the world.

I like it here.