Do you really want to go? I'm having doubts

And I thought I was the only one..!

Having now accepted Cambridge (unconditionally), I've recently been getting very worried about whether or not I can manage the workload. I am ultra-lazy (Chemistry A-level attendence = 40%, others not much better) and having spoken to my friend who is currently at Oxford and hearing about how he is working his b*llocks off, and finding out that my course is supposedly one of the most intensive (Nat Sci), and also realising that I won't have done a shred of work for a whole year (gap year) and yadayadayada OH GOD I FAIL AT LIFE...

Yeah I'm being idiotic and panicky, but everyone gets pre-uni nerves right? Still some of these responses are reassuring, thanks peoples.

I wore everyday clothes: chinos, a shirt, and a sweater.

Yeah, us Cambridge students talk real good.

I only met two other people being interviewed at Christ's, both for English. One of them did actually piss me off slightly by trying to rush-read a book by an author he had put down on his Personal Statement literally minutes before his interview.

I met some quite...er.... pretentious people at my int. It was all rather scary.

they were all wearing suits... including the girls... and they were using these long words that I didn't understand

wearing a suit doesnt make you pretentious. you have to as school uniform in a lot of schools. So it makes sense to wear it to an interview considering you dress like that everyday at school.

Using big words can be pretentious...unless you were there for an englsih interview

If you're attendence was that bad and it was due to lazyness (which you seem to suggest it was) and you still got into Cambridge, then actually I would think yourself lucky, it probably means that you wont have to work as hard as some people. I dont want to sound harsh but I just get a bit annoyed about the 'I got into Cambridge but dont know if I really want to bother to work hard' kind of attitude, just think how many people apply that *really* want it and are prepared to work their socks off and still dont get in!

I've had worse, namely someone from a certain public school saying, "oh, a comprehensive? I didn't realise they still did those!". *snort snort*

Deary me. No wonder he was an Oxford-reject.

i hate my school - they told me off for not turning up to maths lessons, all they are doing is simple vectors.......

I hate you. I can't bloody do vectors. AND THEY'RE EVERYWHERE.

I spent five hours doing vectors yesterday night...the only thing that kept me going was that it was the last Excercise of the last chapter of P3.

wearing a suit doesnt make you pretentious. you have to as school uniform in a lot of schools. So it makes sense to wear it to an interview considering you dress like that everyday at school.

Using big words can be pretentious...unless you were there for an englsih interview

we shouldnt be on TSR, instead we should be working.

we shouldnt be on TSR, instead we should be working.

vectors are godly, P3 vectors are stupidly easy, wait till you have to do really hard vector stuff, woo.

anyways.

They always say wear what you feel confortable in to an interview. You all knew what the situation would be like and therefore some people wouldn't have felt confortable unless they were in a suit. People wearing a suit to interview doesn't make cambridge a snobby place. All those years ago, when I had open days for students with offers and other interviews at other unis, namely bath and southampton, many worse suits there. so neerrrrrr. For the record, I wore jeans and t-shirt to all.

And that bloke boasting about his 40% attendance rate, well done. I tought myself 2 physics modules, so go me. basically, you will have to do some work if you're not going to fail (something i am likely to do) so you might as well learn what it's like now.

That is all.