Ben

Ben is an English student and probably the least dysfunctional of the regular gang, because he has at least some intelligence and the fewest mental problems. He is regularly the one who is questioning and obsessing about all the weirdness around him, and seems to be mother hen of the group.

Eleanor

Unless you are prepared to praise her, discuss feminism with her or lock intellectual horns with her, Eleanor will probably not have time for you. Eleanor is a serious faced Law student who isn't to be messed with - many is the man who has tried to alleviate the burden of her stony face with a cheeky gag about women and found themselves staring at the ceiling in the casualty ward.

Gav

If you look up 'superficial' in the dictionary, it won't have a description of Gav (that would be silly), but it ought to have. He is a role model for the shallow and self-obsessed everywhere. Gav is trying to sail through University on the easy ride that is Media Studies, but even this is too much work for him.

Jimmy

Jimmy is a member of that most overworked variety of student, the Engineer. This is then surprising when you realise that Jimmy is the one who drinks more beer in one night than George Best, Oliver Reed and Richard Harris combined ever did in a 48-hour long bender. Jimmy sees drinking, kebabs and a messy room as necessary distractions from the horrors he must face on his course.

Marcus

Marcus belongs to the strangest group of students other than Philosophists, namely Computer Scientists. He has no interest in anything that doesn't contain a microchip and cannot communicate with anything that doesn't have a mouse and keyboard. His lack of social awareness therefore can infuriate or worry you depending on what social activity he is unable to do.