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He does well at poking fun at hooray-Bristol types who go to university just to keep busy between ski seasons and Cannes. However, in real life, Whitehall's character is not a posho oddity, but increasingly what the average university student looks like. More than anything, last night's episode—in which his brother Tomothy visited to pressure Whitehall's JP into knuckling down for his finals and deciding on a career—played into fears of elitism in higher education. His character may have started off as a caricature of one type of student, but with the cost of education as steep as it is now, he is fast looking like the future of our universities.It's not that Fresh Meat is a bad show—the cast are mostly fantastic and the gags are solid—it's just startling how its understanding of the student experience has become so out of touch. The show has managed to become a period piece within its own short life-span.Still, you can understand why they wouldn't want to make the show too realistic. Imagine what the student show of tomorrow will be like. A business management undergrad who hilariously turns up to lectures on time on a fold-up bike. The kooky philosophy masters student who files her notes alphabetically as opposed to chronologically by lecture. The daddy's boy who applies for a grad scheme with BP and, get this, gets a place on their Integrated Supply and Trading program! And maybe an older student, who hasn't graduated in ten years, telling fanciful tales about the "party pills" and water guns full of tequila of yore, and being told he's making it all up.Follow Angus Harrison on Twitter.Read: I Asked an Expert What Would Happen if I Just Stopped Paying My Student Loans