I remember my first lecture on my first day in evolutionary biology, how populations and species change.
I gave my first lecture on the physics of the LHC more than 25 years ago, so to see its first high-energy collisions was a real relief!
Price: £35,935 Top speed: 149mph 0-62mph: 7.2 seconds MPG: 72.4 CO2: 102g/km Within minutes of taking a seat for my first lecture at university I realised, with a sickening lurch, I was doing totally the wrong course for my meagre talents.
Every year, during my first lecture in physiology, I like to shake my students' ethics with a statement: "All (or most of) the facts we're going to study this year are based on animal experimentation".
I did go back to uni, but in my first lecture of term I found myself spending more time responding to work emails than listening to my lecturer – it was then I decided to quit.
I told them at my first lecture to get up and leave if they wanted to be an employee".
"When I finished my first lecture, one student came to me and said 'can you give me your email', another one said 'which website can I go on'.
My first lecture is on the program for early the next morning, so I decide to clear my head and have a swim.
A conversation with Normando over breakfast on the day of my second lecture caused me to throw out the lecture I was going to give and replace it with one entitled, "Why Changing Minds (and Hearts) Is Difficult," which is full of empirical psychology, epistemology and neurology.
In the 24 hours before this photo was taken, I'd found out my great granny had died, quit my job of three years by texting my manager to say I had a bad case of scabies and could never return (this was a lie, my skin was not infested by little bugs, sorry Alison) and skipped my sixth lecture in a row to drink three bottles of cava in Hyde Park.
