Imperial romance: Ryan O’Leary and Laura Handscombe

I studied medicine at Imperial and was in my final year when I first attended the varsity match in February 2008, which sees Imperial Medicals go head to head with Imperial College in the JPR Williams Rugby match.

I studied medicine at Imperial and was in my final year when I first attended the varsity match in February 2008, which sees Imperial Medicals go head to head with Imperial College in the JPR Williams Rugby match.

My flatmates were all non-medics, and as Imperial Medicals won, I went to the Reynolds and then on to a club with a few medic friends. Later everyone decided to go to Hammersmith to a house party so we all piled on to a number 10 bus. As some people started to get off the bus I followed them, but then realised that my friends were still on the bus!

The group that had got off the bus walked towards Charing Cross and I got chatting to this guy called Ryan. The next thing we knew we'd lost the people we were following to the house party. We carried on chatting whilst waiting for buses home and he asked for my number. We're getting married in July this year. Ryan will be sitting his medical finals this summer.

Laura Handscombe (School of Medicine 2008)