Freshers’ Week is when high school students transition into university students, graciously riding on a wave of booze and bad decisions. Some people try to reinvent themselves for the 100th time and hope it sticks, some spend an ungodly amount of time decorating the room they’re not going to spend too much time in, some […]
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On fish and ponds of various sizes
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 […]