Stranger heard a student talking about their Cambridge interview and this happened...

As many of you may be doing, thousands of students across the UK, and indeed the world, are waiting for their Oxbridge interview,

One candidate, Joe Wren was talking about his interview when a stranger on the train handed him an envelope with £10 enclosed as well as a heart warming note which read

"Hello.

We haven't even spoken but I really wanted to wish you luck with your application to Cambridge. I've not been there but I did a science degree and it changed my life. Please live your dream but don't put too much pressure on yourself - Cambridge would be great but wherever you go and whatever you do, you'll do a great service to the world.

Love yourself and others and be generous, and in exchange is a small token of how I believe great students like you should have the chance to study the world. Last month I contributed a tiny sum to a Kickstarter to a powerful telescope that has an image intensifier and allows us to see distant galaxies. There is so much to know.

Mathematics is a truly beautiful subject - enjoy it and ride the wave.

Best of luck."

Read the full story here.

How lovely is that?!

What are some words of encouragement or advice you've received? Have you done anything kind for a stranger or a stranger for you?

As many of you may be doing, thousands of students across the UK, and indeed the world, are waiting for their Oxbridge interview,

One candidate, Joe Wren was talking about his interview when a stranger on the train handed him an envelope with £10 enclosed as well as a heart warming note which read

"Hello.

We haven't even spoken but I really wanted to wish you luck with your application to Cambridge. I've not been there but I did a science degree and it changed my life. Please live your dream but don't put too much pressure on yourself - Cambridge would be great but wherever you go and whatever you do, you'll do a great service to the world.

Love yourself and others and be generous, and in exchange is a small token of how I believe great students like you should have the chance to study the world. Last month I contributed a tiny sum to a Kickstarter to a powerful telescope that has an image intensifier and allows us to see distant galaxies. There is so much to know.

Mathematics is a truly beautiful subject - enjoy it and ride the wave.

Best of luck."

Read the full story here.

How lovely is that?!

What are some words of encouragement or advice you've received? Have you done anything kind for a stranger or a stranger for you?

As an international student, I couldn't find the bus that goes from Heathrow to Oxford, but I met a kind old man who too wanted to stop at Oxford who showed me where to stop/get tickets. After talking to him, I found that he went to Oxford and studied at the same college that I applied for. It was a very brief chat but he gave very kind words of encouragement and it greatly impacted me when I was kind of stressed out about not arriving to Oxford in time, let alone finding the bus there at all.

Well, at least this time its not BBC news.

As an international student, I couldn't find the bus that goes from Heathrow to Oxford, but I met a kind old man who too wanted to stop at Oxford who showed me where to stop/get tickets. After talking to him, I found that he went to Oxford and studied at the same college that I applied for. It was a very brief chat but he gave very kind words of encouragement and it greatly impacted me when I was kind of stressed out about not arriving to Oxford in time, let alone finding the bus there at all.

And on my train ride on the way back from my Cambridge interview I got tutted then glared at because I sat on a woman's coat by accident...

As many of you may be doing, thousands of students across the UK, and indeed the world, are waiting for their Oxbridge interview,

One candidate, Joe Wren was talking about his interview when a stranger on the train handed him an envelope with £10 enclosed as well as a heart warming note which read

"Hello.

We haven't even spoken but I really wanted to wish you luck with your application to Cambridge. I've not been there but I did a science degree and it changed my life. Please live your dream but don't put too much pressure on yourself - Cambridge would be great but wherever you go and whatever you do, you'll do a great service to the world.

Love yourself and others and be generous, and in exchange is a small token of how I believe great students like you should have the chance to study the world. Last month I contributed a tiny sum to a Kickstarter to a powerful telescope that has an image intensifier and allows us to see distant galaxies. There is so much to know.

Mathematics is a truly beautiful subject - enjoy it and ride the wave.

Best of luck."

Read the full story here.

How lovely is that?!

What are some words of encouragement or advice you've received? Have you done anything kind for a stranger or a stranger for you?