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Corpus Christi College (Cambridge) Students and Applicants

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Take a taxi or a map. The station is only about 20 minutes from Corpus at average walking speed, but it's not at all obvious how to get to the centre from there. It also means a taxi will cost you under a fiver.

Rough directions, though: come out of the train station, and walk to the end of Station Road. Turn right and walk down this street. Your street will change into Hills Road, Regent Street and then finally St. Andrew's Street. Somewhere on St. Andrew's Street you'll see Emma (the college, not just one of my friends) on your right and Nando's on your left, and turn left immediately after Nando's. Walk lots again until you get to Trumpington Street (you should see the Fitzbillies café on your right and Pembroke on your left). Turn right and walk into the centre, and Corpus is a couple of hundred metres down on your right. See map below - the train station is off the bottom right of the picture.

(Edit: one of those sentences made no sense.)

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Reply 581

DalekLover

Thank you, thats so helpful!

Reply 582

Fleurvert

Don't do what I did on the day of my interview! My policy was to walk in a straight line until I reached pretty buildings, I must have had a bit of pace on, because I ended up completely overshooting it and coming at it completely the opposite way i.e passing Gonville & Caius, King's, Trinity etc.

Reply 583

Dogkicker91

Google street view it

Reply 584

248677

I did this a few weeks ago! lol
Leave the station and walk down that road till you come to the big junction (laugh at all the bikes as you walk past)
Turn right onto Hills Road
Keep walking til you find a crossing, cross over, staying on Hills Road and walking in the same direction
Eventually you'll see another big junction, turn left onto Lensfield Road
At the end of that road you'll meet a T-junction, turn right onto Trumpington Street
Then just keep on walking, it'll be on your right
Youl'l walk past Fiztwillam Museum and Peterhouse college, both on your left, and then Pembroke college and a lovely bakery called Fitzbillies, both on your right. It's really very close to this.
Corpus is opposite St. Catherine's
If you get lost just ask someone, if you get to King's College and lots of shops then you've gone too far :biggrin:

And do walk if it's a nice day.

Thanks

just look for a golden time eating locust.

Reply 587

xinolisss

Cambridge ain't that big anyways, unless it's Homerton or Girton or one of those faraway colleges... just walking randomly towards the centre would probably do the trick.

Thats how I found Emmanuel the first time I went for an interview... I had no clue where it was, lost all the maps and everything... it was raining and I started walking aimlessly until I kinda felt like stopping turning around and there it was :biggrin:

Reply 588

ebam_uk

Well just ask a student tbh, I did this when I was on teh bus, bumped into some St John's girls, when i went for my interview @ Kings. They were very helpful, and it was night time and very dark so i dont know what i would have done without their help.

Reply 589

azhao

Fleurvert

Hang on, so much random crap happened to you on interview day. That's really harsh with this, the room being empty etc.

When I went to my interview I bumped into my Maths Teacher and he gave me directions, got a bit lost walking from the train station.
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Reply 590

azhao

Chewwy

just look for a golden time eating locust.

This, you can't miss it. Walk up trumpington street into town and if you see the Chronophage on your right (look out for it) you've just overshot Corpus. Walk back along trumpington until you see the entrance.
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Reply 591

DoMakeSayThink

Chewwy

just look for a golden time eating locust.

This made me chuckle. I still can't decide whether it's a brilliant creation, an abomination, or some amalgam of the two.

Reply 592

Fleurvert

azhao

Hang on, so much random crap happened to you on interview day. That's really harsh with this, the room being empty etc.

The room thing was definitely the scariest. I think I may be cursed. I'll turn up in October and they'll be like, "Oh, we meant the other girl!".

Reply 593

azhao

Fleurvert

The room thing was definitely the scariest. I think I may be cursed. I'll turn up in October and they'll be like, "Oh, we meant the other girl!".

There'll be an initiation test along the lines of drink 10 pints and stay standing or you're out, haha.

Reply 594

Fleurvert

azhao

There'll be an initiation test along the lines of drink 10 pints and stay standing or you're out, haha.

I'll have to get practicing.

Reply 595

azhao

Got my accomodation letter today.

I'm thinking maybe:
Price Band 2: £740-£770
Modern

Possibly, anyone care to enlighten me on what the price bands and style of rooms differ in?

Reply 596

Geritak

azhao

Got my accomodation letter today.

I'm thinking maybe:
Price Band 2: £740-£770
Modern

Possibly, anyone care to enlighten me on what the price bands and style of rooms differ in?

Yeah, I want to know this as well. There isn't a lot of information to go on!

Reply 597

Fleurvert

Geritak

Yeah, I want to know this as well. There isn't a lot of information to go on!

I know! That big letter is just way too much for me to take in on a weekend.

I would like to know a bit about the bands too. I'm wavering between bands 2 and 3, but they are disconcertingly far down the scale, so I'm worried that I may end up in a shed or something.

Reply 598

azhao

Geritak

Yeah, I want to know this as well. There isn't a lot of information to go on!

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Reply 599

Geritak

When I went to Corpus at Easter, I stayed in the guest room. It was in Old Court, quite small and frighteningly hot despite the weather, and the sink sounded like it was muttering in its sleep. I really don't know where in the scale it would come, lol. Maybe if someone could make a guess at that, so I have a better idea?

Fleurvert

I would like to know a bit about the bands too. I'm wavering between bands 2 and 3, but they are disconcertingly far down the scale, so I'm worried that I may end up in a shed or something.

I'm having the same problem, especially with the old-modern dinstinction, and whether it's worth sacrificing mod cons for 'character'. I mean, what exactly constitutes 'character' in an old room? Apart from plumbing that talks to you?

azhao

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