But the fabled, much-sought-after Girton College primarily housed undergraduate students and was several miles from the town center, at the opposite end of Cambridge from the LMB, and the college also imposed a strict evening curfew on its student residents. Blackburn, expecting to work late at night in the lab, rebelled at the absurdity of climbing over the college walls to sneak back to her room in the evening. She chose instead to live at Darwin College, a coed, graduate-student-only college, and after she wrote to Girton College to decline its offer, she received a huffy letter of reply,
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