I was forwarded an email last week from one of my colleagues in the US. One of the articles I had written for a scientific journal had been noticed by a marketing officer at Salford University, which happens to be where I did my degree in Chemistry. In my author profile it mentions the university, so I'm guessing that their daily Google Alert happened to pick up on my bit of stuff about food safety.
Anyway, they were so thrilled to be mentioned, that they wanted me to write a graduate profile for use in their marketing material.
Obviously I was happy to do this, as there's nothing like a bit of recognition along with a slightly fawning email to puff up one's ego enough to spend a few minutes composing some nice reminiscences around the course I studied, the location and general stuff about university life.
I did feel a tad fraudulent though, as the degree I studied is no longer offered at Salford, and I wasn't the most academically committed of students - although I certainly more than made up for that with my approach to the social side of university life 
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Although maybe they want to illustrate that having 3 years of fun and ending up with a Desmond* isn't any kind of barrier to future success, of which I am living proof...
*To the uninitiated, a Desmond is a 2:2 - Desmond Tutu - geddit? 
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