Snap ! Peter. I was at King's. I had places at Bristol, Birmingham, and a third I can't remember now, and I applied to King's, Imperial and UC in London. Imperial was my preferred choice but King's interviewed me and made an offer, and I was advised by staff at school that turning down one London college might make the others decline to even see me, so I accepted KC because I really wanted to be in "swinging London" above any other consideration. I was reading Maths and Physics in the 1st year of the "new" degree units, and I got 9/17 of a second in my first year, and did absolutely nothing in the 2nd year when I became indolent, uninterested and disillusioned with academia. I applied to BOAC and went to a weekend selection at Hamble where I was rejected for my colour vision which we've discussed before.
I left before the 3rd year and was rescued from a life of total idleness by IBM opening up a computer centre about a mile from my home. Luckily for me they saw some potential and hired me. I discovered upon starting that they obviously had a policy of recruiting University dropouts into the Operations department, it was packed with loads of us.