Peterhouse (Cambridge) Students and Applicants

Lol ok then Ben. I presumed your name wasn't Trundle... I think I'm going on the satrday to get to know some people beforehand, and give me chance to find some rooms/offices so I don't get executed for going to the wrong one on monday. Hull is about 3 hours or so away anyway so I'll just have a drive up early on.

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Lol ok then Ben. I presumed your name wasn't Trundle... I think I'm going on the satrday to get to know some people beforehand, and give me chance to find some rooms/offices so I don't get executed for going to the wrong one on monday. Hull is about 3 hours or so away anyway so I'll just have a drive up early on.
ed - I don't get my A level certificates until November either, so I'm just sending my results slips.

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jfcb

Trundle

With regard to the language options, are you allowed to study for a diploma in a language which you have never studied before? I got an A in A-level French but for some reason they are not offering either a "ceritificate" or a "diploma" in that subject this year :frown:

. I quite fancy either German or Russian. To what level roughly does a diploma equate? I.e. Is it higher than an A-level?

I found this, which might help:
http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/courses/DipCert.html

"The standard of the Certificate is equivalent to Part IA ab initio language papers, and the language may be studied from scratch."

"[The Diploma] ... is of the same standard as the Part IA examination in post A-level languages"

I might be taking German as well, seeing as we don't have to sit exams the first year.

Also, have you chosen your papers yet?

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Trundle

Do you tend to find it is just sports enthusiasts who participate or does everybody join in? (By everybody, I mean those who show no sporting ability whatsoever!).

Depends heavily on the sport. The ones I mentioned are probably the ones you have to have some talent to get into (the 1st teams at least) however pretty much anyone can join in the rest of them (I played for the squash team last year despite never having played it before, and I'm no sporting natural)

In fact you'll probably be press ganged into joining teams during the Fresher's Squash...

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Captain Crash

Actually there's no team quite as competitive as the Peterhouse pool team...

Well there wouldn't be, isn't the pool table one of the rare free ones? In which case people would be queueing (sp?) up for a sport you can play watching Neighbours with a pint...

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OP

Juan Cobo

I found this, which might help:
http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/courses/DipCert.html

"The standard of the Certificate is equivalent to Part IA ab initio language papers, and the language may be studied from scratch."

"[The Diploma] ... is of the same standard as the Part IA examination in post A-level languages"

I might be taking German as well, seeing as we don't have to sit exams the first year.

Also, have you chosen your papers yet?

I read on the languages website that you need an A-level to study the diploma, which makes me annoyed that French Diploma isn't an option! Therefore, I think I might consider the certificate in German. The thing is, on the MFL site it says the certificate in German is available, yet the senior tutor says it isn't. I don't want to write a letter asking which is correct!

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Gary2688

Well there wouldn't be, isn't the pool table one of the rare free ones? In which case people would be queueing (sp?) up for a sport you can play watching Neighbours with a pint...

Funnily enough thats exactly how I got into neighbours....

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Tisch

Trundle

I read on the languages website that you need an A-level to study the diploma, which makes me annoyed that French Diploma isn't an option! Therefore, I think I might consider the certificate in German. The thing is, on the MFL site it says the certificate in German is available, yet the senior tutor says it isn't. I don't want to write a letter asking which is correct!

I really wanted to do spanish but obv this isnt an option! Although i think the engineering department have a language department or something so I think i can do a language as part of my course. Also Cambridge have a language centre as well where its non-specialist languages and you dont get a qualification at the end, its just for fun to learn the language i think.
http://www.langcen.cam.ac.uk/courses/courses.php
Also, I cannot find my GCSE certificates ( i have this feeling ive already sent them somewhere...) so do you reckon I could just send my exam slips for that? And A level certificates are only sent in november so itll be slips for that too.

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Finally, i've finished my letters to my college children.

As far as certificates are concerned IIRC exam slips suffice as long as they are the official OCR/AQA/etc ones.

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Captain Crash

Funnily enough thats exactly how I got into neighbours....

I think I might have to too, openly admitting I've never watched it but it's the first thing I thought of

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Captain Crash

Finally, i've finished my letters to my college children.

....and less than 20 hours later one of them has already replied. Why can't laziness run in the family? :rolleyes:

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jfcb

Any ideas who my college parents may be?
I feel neglected, who knows what kind of rebellious young adult I'll grow into...

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OP

Captain Crash

....and less than 20 hours later one of them has already replied. Why can't laziness run in the family? :rolleyes:

Wow! I really should apply to mine!

When you sent your GCSE certificates and A-level results slips, did you send them recorded delivery? Also, who do I need to send them to exactly?

My Mum doesn't think that I should do a foreign language in my first year until I know what the workload is like. Do you think this is good advice? I was thinking of writing to the DofS and asking their opinion, expressing my concern. I know that languages are useful for studying sources. I don't want to take more on that what I can handle!

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OP

Juan Cobo

Any ideas who my college parents may be?
I feel neglected, who knows what kind of rebellious young adult I'll grow into...

Have they not written yet? Shocking behaviour! :p:

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jfcb

Shocking, I know. I'm traumatised already!

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Juan Cobo

Any ideas who my college parents may be?
I feel neglected, who knows what kind of rebellious young adult I'll grow into...

I know which historian parents it might be, but as they're all historians they'll be late getting round to writing them. I'll let you know if I hear anything specific.

When you sent your GCSE certificates and A-level results slips, did you send them recorded delivery? Also, who do I need to send them to exactly?

My Mum doesn't think that I should do a foreign language in my first year until I know what the workload is like. Do you think this is good advice? I was thinking of writing to the DofS and asking their opinion, expressing my concern. I know that languages are useful for studying sources. I don't want to take more on that what I can handle!

I sent my certificates on recorded delivery (I didn't fancy loosing them!) - it depends on how much trust you have in the good ol' royal mail. I think you have to send them to the admissions office.

As for languages, I have a feeling that no-one in our year actually did one - probabley because we couldn't be bothered rather than anything else! Other than that I really don't know enough to comment.

I would point out there's a lot you prob want to do down here but only so much free time....

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JennyST

Whoever was worried about finding places - don't worry, your parents will show you around, give you a guided tour and show you where lectures and things are, so that's not a problem. Coming up on the Saturday is a good idea, though, so you have more time to settle in before work and lectures start.

Jenny

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Captain Crash

it depends on how much trust you have in the good ol' royal mail. I think you have to send them to the admissions office.

Recorded delivery it is then. Or I might make them into paper planes and throw them, they've the same chance of actually getting there. I think it said we send it all to the tutors' secretary, that's where mine's going anyway

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OP