Before coming to Cambridge, you were used to being the big fish in a small pond. If I got a pound every time I heard that, I wouldn’t need to go to university anymore. This analogy has been used by our senior tutor, by the supervisors, by a therapist that spoke to us during the […]
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I survived my first term at Cambridge
… and since you haven’t heard anything about it from me until now, it’s time to look back and see what actually happened during the past two months. After applying to Cambridge on a whim and deciding to try and switch triposes a few weeks before matriculation, it was clear my life wouldn’t be too […]
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Cycling in Cambridge – The Stories of a Clumsy Student
Graciously ignoring the fact that I haven’t posted anything in more than two months, allow me to vent a bit about what cycling in Cambridge is like when you’ve been born with two left legs and the attention span of a goldfish. As a fresher, one of the first things you want to do when […]
What To Take To University – The Checklist
The final countdown has begun: there are 10 days left until I fly to uni. And, besides feeling nervous and excited at the same time, I also have to prepare for moving far from home… by taking at least half of it with me in my luggage. To make sure that I won’t forget anything […]
New beginnings
Hello everybody and welcome to my blog! (Yay!) I’m Miruna (but you can call me Max), a left-handed almost midget who is really bad at writing introductions. I’ve decided to start a new blog after finding out that I’m going to study abroad beginning this autumn. To me (and most teens), leaving my home, family, […]