The Official "We-Are-Too-Cool-For-Cambridge" Thread 2009.

can i ask...three years later, when you've landed a job on a graduate programme some place, are you going to mention that you got rejected at Cambridge?

i've met a few who are still bitter about it after all this time.

I'm not too cool for Cambridge, I’m not cool enough. Really had my heart set on the place: I loved every second of my time there, instantly got on with everybody I met, the Dons seemed like great people and the architecture brought tears to my eyes. I love the slight eccentricity (you know they have an assassins’ guild? how cool is that!), the weird customs, the slang, the sense of history and tradition, the clannishness and petty rivalries. And yes, I wanted to be with the elite, I wanted to know that the people I was with were the best and the brightest, to know that you’re just a little bit special. And no matter what we say, it IS the best/ second best Uni out there. It’s like everywhere else is just a learning experience, Cambridge is a lifestyle, a mindset. All my heroes went there or Oxford: the Pythons, Stephen Fry, Ian McKellen, Richard Ayodae, Douglas Adams, William Wordsworth, Ted Hughes, Coleridge... I felt made for the place, and at home there.

And I'm not good enough. I feel like a complete failure. Life really, really sucks. Trying to decide which of my other choices (Durham, St Andrew's, Edinburgh, York) to go for. I guess it doesn’t help that I’ve never actually visited any of the other Unis I’ve applied to, so I’m looking at them now and comparing them to Cambridge. They seem so uninspiring, they're just Universities, nothing special. Can't be bothered even going to Uni now, maybe I'll join the Army or something. I just can’t seem to motivated for my future anymore, I’ve spent so long preparing and working with Cambridge as the target I can’t really see the point anymore. It's got so bad I’m actually reading Duffy and not get any more depressed…

Disclaimer – I’m sorry this is such a winge or if I’ve insulted your Uni! I’m not usually this annoying I swear! I’m just dead depressed at present, I’ll cheer up somehow, I’m sure. I hear Mescaline is good…

I'm not too cool for Cambridge, I’m not cool enough. Really had my heart set on the place: I loved every second of my time there, instantly got on with everybody I met, the Dons seemed like great people and the architecture brought tears to my eyes. I love the slight eccentricity (you know they have an assassins’ guild? how cool is that!), the weird customs, the slang, the sense of history and tradition, the clannishness and petty rivalries. And yes, I wanted to be with the elite, I wanted to know that the people I was with were the best and the brightest, to know that you’re just a little bit special. And no matter what we say, it IS the best/ second best Uni out there. It’s like everywhere else is just a learning experience, Cambridge is a lifestyle, a mindset. All my heroes went there or Oxford: the Pythons, Stephen Fry, Ian McKellen, Richard Ayodae, Douglas Adams, William Wordsworth, Ted Hughes, Coleridge... I felt made for the place, and at home there.

And I'm not good enough. I feel like a complete failure. Life really, really sucks. Trying to decide which of my other choices (Durham, St Andrew's, Edinburgh, York) to go for. I guess it doesn’t help that I’ve never actually visited any of the other Unis I’ve applied to, so I’m looking at them now and comparing them to Cambridge. They seem so uninspiring, they're just Universities, nothing special. Can't be bothered even going to Uni now, maybe I'll join the Army or something. I just can’t seem to motivated for my future anymore, I’ve spent so long preparing and working with Cambridge as the target I can’t really see the point anymore. It's got so bad I’m actually reading Duffy and not get any more depressed…

Disclaimer – I’m sorry this is such a winge or if I’ve insulted your Uni! I’m not usually this annoying I swear! I’m just dead depressed at present, I’ll cheer up somehow, I’m sure. I hear Mescaline is good…

dude you just made me sad. Its not the end of the world, if it means that much to you why dont you take a year out and reapply next year at least youll be prepared, im actually considering it you know.

And I'm not good enough. I feel like a complete failure. Life really, really sucks. Trying to decide which of my other choices (Durham, St Andrew's, Edinburgh, York) to go for.

Noooo I thought you were strong!!!! Don't let them take your soul, don't let them take you back into their clutches!!!!

I'm not too cool for Cambridge, I’m not cool enough. Really had my heart set on the place: I loved every second of my time there, instantly got on with everybody I met, the Dons seemed like great people and the architecture brought tears to my eyes. I love the slight eccentricity (you know they have an assassins’ guild? how cool is that!), the weird customs, the slang, the sense of history and tradition, the clannishness and petty rivalries. And yes, I wanted to be with the elite, I wanted to know that the people I was with were the best and the brightest, to know that you’re just a little bit special. And no matter what we say, it IS the best/ second best Uni out there. It’s like everywhere else is just a learning experience, Cambridge is a lifestyle, a mindset. All my heroes went there or Oxford: the Pythons, Stephen Fry, Ian McKellen, Richard Ayodae, Douglas Adams, William Wordsworth, Ted Hughes, Coleridge... I felt made for the place, and at home there.

And I'm not good enough. I feel like a complete failure. Life really, really sucks. Trying to decide which of my other choices (Durham, St Andrew's, Edinburgh, York) to go for. I guess it doesn’t help that I’ve never actually visited any of the other Unis I’ve applied to, so I’m looking at them now and comparing them to Cambridge. They seem so uninspiring, they're just Universities, nothing special. Can't be bothered even going to Uni now, maybe I'll join the Army or something. I just can’t seem to motivated for my future anymore, I’ve spent so long preparing and working with Cambridge as the target I can’t really see the point anymore. It's got so bad I’m actually reading Duffy and not get any more depressed…

Disclaimer – I’m sorry this is such a winge or if I’ve insulted your Uni! I’m not usually this annoying I swear! I’m just dead depressed at present, I’ll cheer up somehow, I’m sure. I hear Mescaline is good…

I am trying soooo very hard to focus on the good right now but Poet on the Rock just brought back all the good memories and made me sad.

I am absolutely devastated, I'm not gonna lie, I'm just trying to remain good-humoured!

But this thread has cheered you up? It's cheered me up loads!! Wierdly because when the oxford students made a thread like this I also thought it was weird and really loserish but well I'm a loser, I've accepted it!
Shame poet on the rock had to bring the mood down by speaking the truth

Maybe this is all a big practical joke by those mad proffesors and we all really did get in because accepted means rejected and rejected means accepted....theyre so mad......

hehe, as ridiculous as this sounds, (perhaps arrogantly) I keep telling myslef to try and cheer up, that theyll change their mind and realise theyve made a mistake! I was looking at pHd options at Cambridge, but they dont get the same student life as undergraduates, and i dont know if i could be bothered after a 5 year mediacl course!

hehe, as ridiculous as this sounds, (perhaps arrogantly) I keep telling myslef to try and cheer up, that theyll change their mind and realise theyve made a mistake! I was looking at pHd options at Cambridge, but they dont get the same student life as undergraduates, and i dont know if i could be bothered after a 5 year mediacl course!

Sorry I've made people sad, I thought everyone actually believed all the "I don't care" stuff they were posting so they would mind. Sorry guys, but you were doing a really good job of preteding.

Let's just push the disapointment deep down inside, where it will gnaw away at our souls for ever and fix false smiles upon our faces.

Welcome to the suck.

Im thinking about reapplying next year but that means a whole year of working and waiting for it, and also giving up my place at Exeter. I just think im still under Cambridges spell

Why not defer entry for exeter?

Im trying to convince myself that the rejection was because of my age. Im only 16 and dont turn 17 till february.

wow, really?!
If that's true I'm sure it did have a big impact on the decision. Especially for medicine!