What do you do with your hair if you want someone to know you went to college and you're really smart? Well, it's a fine art: for starters you keep it conservative, while at the same time adding a little flair to display your individuality. Once you've put on your checked shirt and corduroy trousers, you need you get in front of the mirror, get the gel out, and give your lid that good swoop to the side that makes it look like you're constantly pushing your hair back (and to the right) in academic confusion, maybe leaning over a volume of Paradise Lost with an elbow on the table and a clump of hair in hand - and when you turn the page or understand a reference, you give it the old swoop. This haircut is the stylised equivalent of yelling "I'm cleverer than you" at passers by.
