Occasional spots can happen at virtually any stage of life, particularly if you're stressed.

That never stopped many students (myself included) from slacking off..... 

Tommo

Aren't 16 years olds more prone to spots than 30 year olds?

And an excessive intake of Victoria sponge will certainly result to additional skin oil, leading to spots.

Once upon a time, in a galaxy far far away, there used to be a great difference (before students had become "customers") between a University Lecturer and a Woolworths Shop Assistant. The result is that these days when Term begins - and the shop is "open for business" again - a lecturer's life (like that of a shop assistant) completely changes. While it used to be the case that students attended their place of education as a privilege in order to undertake for themselves a process of learning, calling upon the aid of specialized resources (both human and material), this no longer happens. They now turn up at opening time in order to be served the education that they expect actively to be given to them. So their learning experience is now entirely the "responsibility" of their teachers, just as the client experience of a Woolworths customer lies entirely at the door of the salesperson.

This former (but now extinct) difference was never more clear to me than when, as a Postgraduate student (in that other galaxy), I ventured into Woolworths in order to buy some envelopes. Positioned behind a queue of about 8 customers, I noted how each and every one of them was deliberately and verbally abused by the cashier - she was extremely abrupt with each and every one of them. When it came to my turn, I preempted her by saying humorously "I hope you won't be cross with me - I just want some envelopes". She smiled sweetly and said to me "It's all right love - this is my last day here after 30 years 'cos I'm retiring tomorrow - I just decided that on my last day I'd give my customers some of the treatment they have given me for the last 30 years!".

Baz

I had to check whether that was a Haiku - it had the potential to be one.

Missed mother's birthday
Good thing I have a card then
It rains rains rains rains

I had to get off the bus early and walk the rest of the way when I went to a lunchtime recital of the Goldberg Variations at the Conservatoire today - the top half of Broad Street is closed due to the Tory Conference and there were suits everywhere

Douglas Hollick played the Goldberg on harpsichord and omitted all repeats in order to fit it into the lunchtime concert slot.