My undergraduate progress as a Science student was, shall we say, rocky. Some of this might potentially be excused by saying I was bored and disappointed that I didn’t achieve the required grades to enter straight into medicine from high school. This, however, would be to deny the fact that my undergraduate science career was subverted by an inordinate fascination in the consumption of barley based alcoholic beverages. My Uni studies progressed quite well in first year – pass