Formal halling

That wouldn't get you into May Balls though...

Seriously, you could do it, but to me, it looks a bit sad really. You wouldn't know anyone, you're not part of it yet, and it's all about chilling out with your friends.

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I think it's any sprint sport. Anything where the victory is sudden and immediately after the exertion, while the adrenaline is still flowing.

mmm i guess that applies, but i dont know of any sport that hurts like rowing does. But I agree with you that it is most important that the victory is immediate after the exertion. Doing well at a head race just isnt the same thing as winning a regatta (for example we won our division last saturday and beat jesus....but I didnt get at all excited about that)

Is Cambridge not as much a part of the thousands of students who have graduated and aren't there now as it is to the ones yet to be matriculated? Sure, the memories of three amazing years have not be made yet, but the place means as much to us as it does to those there and those who have left. We have memories of being inspired by the archetecture, seeing a good student play, punting, getting drunk after interviews, seeing mates from school there....Cambridge is a place of goodness and acceptance for those not yet matriculated in the same way it is for those there and from the past and will remain so for the rest of our lives; we are Cantabriagians together for life by sharing the collective experience that matters so much to us all.

I may not have 'come up' yet, but my soul has and is attached there for life. I throughly love my visits up to Cambridge, and I think for many students, to be there in the first place, the journey has not been an easy ride. You read in the papers stories of people who have struggled against the odds to make it and you love the place even more for the way it has certainly changed their lives. I'm a Cantabrigian now as much as I'll be on Greek Week and all those other days before Matriculation!

£^&" May Balls for next year, there's absolutely nothing whatsoever wrong with enjoying the summer sunshine perhaps in The Granta or anywhere else by the Cam for free and thanking God there's a place like this. This is a different level from school where the 'sad'/'cool' relativism remains just that, and trust me, I've seen things around Cambridge I'd consider far 'sadder' than some students with offers/unconditionals paying the place a visit when it looks at its finest and enjoying the 'friendly' student atmosphere.

I could take a flight to Ibiza right now, come back hours before my first Greek Week lesson and the passion and soul is still there; I am Cantabrigian, I am part of it as as is anyone else who loves the city, and there's not a damn thing anyone can say to change that (unless they take the offer back!)

Jesus, that's obsessive! Cambridge is really just a city, with a university in it. Admittedly a beautiful one with some fantastic traditions, but considering that you haven't experienced what life here is actually like, I'm really not sure that you're a proper "Cantabrigian" yet.

Come here in May Week by all means, I just don't get why you'd want to attempt to participate in something you're not part of, and won't be able to enjoy fully until next year. I don't mean "sad" as in the playground meaning, I just cannot understand why you'd want to do that. There'll be plenty of time and trust me it'll be worth it. Just being in the city at the same time will not be the same.

lol wish i could be bothered to read all that... and i wish my offer was unconditional then i'd come sit at the backs with you and drink pimms lol

Seriously dude, come results day you'll be so estatic and relieved at being so worried over nothing that you'll do the whole routine (like from 'Friends') where you'll call everyone pretending you got D's/E's and then after getting them worked up for ages laugh and break the good news (God that was fun...!)

If it wasn't for me doing so well in my AS year I wouldn't be where I am now; I got low 490's for all my subjects and that was fine

Work your a%se off of course, but you've got nothing to worry about buddy

Touche (can't work how to do accents here), and it's your right to express it. Think back to opening your acceptance letter, thinking of all those mixed feelings of surprise/relief/euphoria/fear/etc....I don't think it's something any of us will forget, and especially anyone on a Gap year who has to wait a bit longer to 'fulfil' what's promised.

I remeber my acceptance letter- I was listening to Judy Garland's 'Somewehre Over the Rainbow' song and studying Teilhard de Chardin!

I dont think I had seriously considered how I would deal with rejection until the letter was sitting there, I had tried "bigging up" other unis, but my parents so didnt beleive m- they knew I wanted cambridge. but I think it was a bit of an anticlimax- my letter was quite harsh and it started as if it was a rejection letter, saying about how interviews are imprortant and how they had to reject many able people...and then at the end it put in bold that I had to get the grades stated- or. else. (ummm 'or else- slight exageration)

I had been (mis)informed that a fat letter bore an acceptance, along with forms and accomodation material, whilst a thin letter meant rejection. I quickly resigned myself to dissapointment when it was thin, only to wonder why on earth they required grades from rejects...

Touche (can't work how to do accents here), and it's your right to express it. Think back to opening your acceptance letter, thinking of all those mixed feelings of surprise/relief/euphoria/fear/etc....I don't think it's something any of us will forget, and especially anyone on a Gap year who has to wait a bit longer to 'fulfil' what's promised. It's been one Hell of a ride I'll never forget, and surely for even getting this far into offers, we've been 'scarred/branded' in some way that we weren't before?