The Cambridge Chat Thread - it's over 90,000!

No it's not, it's the Court of Justice of the European Union - it's not the same thing. In fact, the body has absolutely nothing to do with the ECtHR and completely different membership and powers.

It's extremely unfortunate that the media always conflates the two. The European Court of Human Rights is much wider, it includes 47 states. The CJEU is the judicial body of the European Union, ruling on matters such as harmonisation of movement of persons and provision of services, and the movement of goods.

I'm not sure that it's even that. I think that most of it is down to 8 week terms. Most other universities have 12 week terms and the Cambridge degrees are definitely at least of the same standard as those of other universites (and arguably are more challenging). So this means that we do all of the work in 75% of the time. I think that it's this more than extra-curricular stuff which has made me collapse. The work is relentless and huge and I couldn't cope.

Packing up my room for the very last time is awfully depressing

Slightly confused as to why every single article the published on the Guardian website about universities seems to include this picture of Emma. I mean, it's a lovely picture, but largely quite irrelevant to the articles it illustrates.

Thanks!
I don't need it per se, its just that I'll be working at a 4 day residential summer school. Its going to be full on and I'll be run off my feet most of the time, but when I do get time to put my feet up it would be nice to be able to have internet access. Its probably too much hassle to get set up for any other type of internet, and I doubt they'd offer it.
Last year when a summer school I worked at was held at Lucy Cav there was good eduroam and lapwing connection everywhere, so I could connect without any arrangements.
Ah well. I'll take the laptop in case, but will also take reading to do.

Huge sympathy there. I reckon most of us would do better and be less stressed if we just had more time to do the work in. Someone told me the idea is the short, intense terms increases our learning ability. Somehow, I doubt this actually works. I definitely don't learn more, I just get more stressed and moany...

Even so, I think a 2.2 from Cambridge will still be looked on well My brother graduated from Cambridge with a 2.2 and he's a senior programmer in a games company. It's not the end of the world.

Slightly confused as to why every single article the published on the Guardian website about universities seems to include this picture of Emma. I mean, it's a lovely picture, but largely quite irrelevant to the articles it illustrates.

You could always pop down to the bar. There are lots of sofas and wooden chairs - always enough to sit on your own during term time and so certainly enough to be comfortable out of term time.

The actual drink serving is unlikely to happen outside of term time (unless there's an alumni event on), but the bar room itself is open from about 9am to 1am every day. If it ever isn't you can ask the Porters and they're obliged to open it for you. (And there are picnic benches behind the bar where you can almost certainly get wireless if you don't feel like going to the Porters).

Natsci IA is up on camsis.

I GOT A II! Thank god. So many nightmares last night. I am exceedingly happy and relieved. Now to tell my parents I didn't get a 3rd, like I'd told them I probably was getting

I NOw to try and convince my DoS to release the breakdowns.

I was right in being told first year (NST 1A) doesn't count right?

Before this year I had never got above a 2:2 in a Cambridge exam. This year I got a 2:1 in Operations Management and a 1st in Marketing. This makes me happy

Apart from that, I got 4 2:2s, 2 3rds and 2 fails, which is more my kind of level. Unfortunately my worst mark was in Vibration, which is a module which I understand better than the others, like better than the others and am consequently doing my project and three modules on next year...