CUSU Shadowing Scheme

Woe betide the person who's landed with you, Cam.

Saying that, if they're lumped with me they'll have the 2 mile trek to lectures to contend with :P

Same! hope I get someone

I went last year and really enjoyed it - I was shadowing a student doing a subject I'd never considered studying (PPS) at a college I'd never heard of (Sidney Sussex) and now I'm about to put in my application for PPS at Sidney, so I guess that probably shows how useful I found it (:

Try and do stuff not organised by the scheme while you're there if you can, cause it'll give you a more accurate picture of the place - we went with another couple of shadowers to a improv comedy thing at the ADC instead of a talk organised by CUSU (most of their stuff isn't compulsory, but if they're running the pub quiz or the debating workshop again, go along cause they're great) and missed something else to go to a supervision, which was really interesting and definitely worthwhile since it's such a big element of Oxbridge teaching.

I hope you get to go (:

I've applied but I don't think I'll get in

Everyone in my AS year last year that applied to go on to the shadowing scheme - I say 'everyone', there were only three of us - had initially received rejection notices from CUSU saying that there had been 'unprecedented demand for places', but we all then received notices about a week later (and only a few days before the process itself) saying that we had in fact succeeded in our application so if you do get a rejection, don't lose all hope

I got a place to shadow a Maths student, named Tom, at Clare College!!

I got a place to shadow a Maths student, named Tom, at Clare College!!

I got in for maths at Pembroke

I know two people from school who are going on 10th-12th feb as well so I don't have to travel by myself

I hope it doesn't take too long to get to Emmanuel. I don't want to wake up too early

I'm sooo excited

Yay - Clare! You'll like it there: it's a lovely place. Not that I'm biased or anything...

(see below)

It took me a while to realise who this was, I thought someone was randomly insulting me


Me too! I didn't realise it was possible we might not

I got a place!!!

It's on my 17th ...lols

I'm going on the 3rd-5th February (my birthday is on the 4th ), shadowing a girl named Sophie for History at Girton College!!!

See you all there....

Yay, I have a place too!

I'm shadowing Sophie at Girton College, doing Modern and Medieval Languages. Very exciting.
(Am I right in thinking that Cececlia in 'Atonement' went there...? <trivia nerd&gt

Whoops, didn't notice that I'd cocked up my spelling of Cecilia there, sorry about that.

I did wonder if it was the same Sophie, but Cambridge don't do the joint honours in History/Languages, do they?

There are about 4 Sophies that I know at Girton, but the one doing history lives in the room under mine. She's a fresher, German, very softly spoken.

I haven't met the other Sophie, the MML one. She's a second year from the looks of her facebook.

EDIT: And yes, Cecilia did go to Girton. I haven't read it, but presumably it's set in a time when women didn't really go to university; Girton was the first college for higher education for women in the UK, so that would make sense.

That's cool, she sounds nice, when I saw someone else was shaodwing "Sophie at Girton" I wondered for a second if I was randomly signed up to do Languages too!


Girton sounds good too, I have actually read Atonement and didn't even pick up that it was the same place Cecilia went

P.S, I can't remember, what accomodation are we staying in? Like individual rooms in the college we were assigned too?

Thanks!