Being at a London college (and unlike Dundee, the trend was to get as far away as posisble) following minor mishaps in my planned career path, my trip to college was along the lines of driving the car there, unloading, taking the car home and then cycling back to halls. Popped home (15 mile ride) most weekends, getting back into halls after hours on a Sunday night meant lobbing the bike over the fence and then following it.
Second year I stayed mostly at home after a flatshare fell through. Third year I wasn't there. I had discovered research over the summer, and the wonders of email on X25, Vaxen and other such things including a bulletin board known as UNACCESS which would log you out every 15 minutes. Found flat mates through that (not the best of ideas) and then spent the next year in Harrow working for a large Pharma company. Computer access was a 286 running kermit through a 1200/75 modem to the ULCC vax. Or the Z88 if I was feeling keen. This was 1989/90 and one of my housemates wrote the occasional tech review for a magazine so we had copies of Coherent to try out. A Xenix-like OS. Quite different to Windows 2 which I had on the 286 box with a black/orange BT screen.
Back to college and a different flat, this time in Queens Park. No dial up access from there but I was one of the few with an email account. At about this time JANET went internet instead of X25 PAD so email became so much easier. Had a single speed drop frame bike I used to cycle Queens Park to New Malden on via Richmond Park with my washing every weekend. Found my first computer virus in '91.
Ah, fun and games. AOL/Compuserve/Janet. Kermit became old hat by my final year. Amazing really what we managed to do with what we had.