Congratulations to all those that received offers and commiserations to those that got rejected. For those of you in the pool, stay afloat and I hope that you get fished!
Anyway, after I got my offer last year there were around a million things that I wanted to know about Cambridge. Sadly, there wasn't any one place where I could ask questions so I had to resort to the Cambridge Current Students Chat Thread. Considering that the scummy O****d lot currently have a thread like this, I thought it would be a good idea to start one. Offer-holders can post questions and current students can attempt to answer them and dispel any misconceptions.
I'll start off with a few common questions and then people can start asking some of their own.
Is the workload really as tough as everyone says?
There is indeed a hell of a lot of work and you're expected to do a lot for supervisions, but it's certainly manageable and you can still manage to do a lot of social activities. The way I see it, people get given offers because they're thought to be capable to handle the heavy workload.
Will I be able to enjoy myself what with all the work?
This is kind of an extension of the previous question but in short, yes. People often find themselves fitting their work around their social lives rather than the other way round. Obviously, being Cambridge, some people do work ridiculously hard and you never see them but those people are in the minority.
Are people as stuck up as everyone says?
Not at all. The vast majority of people are incredibly normal and you don't even know whether or not people are from a private school or a state school. There are, of course, ridiculously posh, pompous gits but they tend to stick their own 'type' of people.
Those are just a few that I've come up with from the top of my head but feel free to ask anything!