saturday lectures?

hi.

just got a quick question about lectures happening on saturdays. i've had a look at a sample timetable here: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/year1.html

what are the chances of having lectures/tutorials on a saturday? does everyone have 'em? are they just in the morning or all day?

(i'm off to kings to do computer science in october, if that helps)

thanks in advance

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Reply 1

username299161

Awesome, isn't it? Well, no it sucks a bit actually. I had (2 hours of) saturday morning lectures last year, as a Mathmo, that is.
By the way, at Cambridge they're "supervisions' not 'tutorials'.

Reply 2

nervousApplicant

thanks for the info.

do we get some sort of timetable when we arrive? or do we choose what lectures we go to? (sorry if it sounds dumb, dont really know how it works...)

Reply 3

psychofly

Lecture-wise, you won't have any Computer Science ones on a saturday, and I don't think there will be any NatSci ones either, but I'm not 100% sure about that. Check on their website

(CompSci Timetables can be found here: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/lectlist/)

If you do in fact have Saturday Lectures they will be in the morning, and probably no more than 2.

Supervision-wise it is generally up to you to arrange times with your supervisors. Most supervisors will arrange them for during the week as they'd quite like to have the weekend off as well. In the two years I've had so far I have yet to have a single weekend supervision.

You can look up most of the timetables online, but you will have to look in more than one place. In first year CompSci you don't really have any choice as to which lectures courses to attend, you're expected to go to all of them.

Reply 4

Zhen Lin

You will have at least one Saturday morning lecture in your first year if you're doing CompSci - either Maths for NatSci or Mathematics proper.

Reply 5

Excalibur

On Saturdays there's a maths lecture (9am) and Chemistry (10am). Depending on your options you may not go to chemistry, but you will definitely have the maths one.

Reply 6

nervousApplicant

yeah i'm lookin to do that chemistry option

how hectic do things get by early to mid november? do you find you have much spare time?

Reply 7

psychofly

Ah, fair enough. I did the Maths w/CompSci option in my first year, so only had 'real' Maths lectures on Saturday. Wasn't sure about the various NatSci maths options.

Reply 8

nervousApplicant

do these saturday lectures only happen in the morning?

Yes.

thanks for all the replies

Reply 11

SunderX

In my experience the Natural Science Part IA Maths (A and B) courses both have saturday morning lectures at 9am.

Attendance was noticeably halved on those days.

Reply 12

MC REN

SunderX

In my experience.

what goes on on thursday afternoons?

also while your here, how did that Alex Mowbray chant get started at pav?

Reply 13

Anon the 7th

gutted having lectures at the weekend

ours are monday-friday that's it

Reply 14

FadeToBlackout

Anon the 7th

gutted having lectures at the weekend

ours are monday-friday that's it

What is this mythical "weekend" of which you speak? Two whole days, not doing any academic work? Impossible.

Reply 15

Anon the 7th

FadeToBlackout

What is this mythical "weekend" of which you speak? Two whole days, not doing any academic work? Impossible.

are you at Cambridge too?

no i would do any work or catch up, thus still relating to academia at the weekend (the weekend is Saturday and Sunday in case you were wondering)

although some say the week STARTS on Sunday :dontknow: