Cambridge 2011 Freshers Chat Thread

Hello!

My best friend will be an English Girtonian! I'm (hopefully) going to be an English Jesuit is anybody else Jesus? (the potential joke value of the college is basically the reason I applied)

I may have to join you there! My friend's brother is 2nd Year Land Economy at Catz and her boyfreind is 2nd Year History. Yes, she is going out with her brother's best friend. I'm also really excited about the Cinema at Christ's.

What's the land ec's name? I'm a catz medic

Sweet Was he/she pooled 'cause I might've met him/her at re-interview?
You definitely can't beat living inside Jesus! I hear the food is heavenly

Cool So what offers do you hold?

It might be a dumb question, but my condition says:

"You must obtain a final overall GPA of at least 3.85 in your BSBA in 2011"

does it mean I need a final overal GPA of 3.85 of my four years college, or a GPA of 3.85 of year 2011?

Thank you all!

Yeyy, i haven't seen many on TSR... which college have you got your offer at?

Oh and welcome to TSR, just noticed that you've got 10 posts...

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Pembroke! And you?

I'm eyeing up all the modules for arch&anth though because they look fascinating (and much more fun than 'European Political Thought 1546-1967' or whatever)

Yeah, the nature of law is such that if you read in full every case required for a particular supervision essay or problem, you would simply never sleep. When you're assigned twenty or thirty cases, several articles, and a hundred pages of textbook reading, it's just not feasible to read it all in full. There's various shortcuts you can take--though I try to look at the judgments for at least the cases I cite, even if I can't read them in full/tackle all the dissenting judgments. I spend more time trying to get to grips with principles and how they apply, figuring I can get into more critical analysis/detail in the vacations when I figure out what I'm revising for exams.

You guys shouldn't read this thread Enjoy a few months more of blissful ignorance.

You guys shouldn't read this thread Enjoy a few months more of blissful ignorance.

Haha yes, I do remember venturing on here as an offer-holder and posting something along the lines of " omg what am I in forrrrrrr?" and then I got to Cambridge and it was actually worse than I'd anticipated but somehow more bearable because you just get caught up in the misery of permanently feeling like you are behind in everything and forget that there was ever a time when you weren't experiencing a constant looming dread and it just becomes sort of normal

Should probably clarify - I MISS the constant looming dread. Seriously. Real life doesn't have enough deadlines to miss.

I'm getting the hell off this thread now. I'm going to try and enjoy A2's now...

while being at Cambridge is extremely hard work, it's also sort of addictive hard work. I'd never found anything really THAT hard before I went to university, {...} So look forward to the challenge

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Another thing that I should say is that while being at Cambridge is extremely hard work, it's also sort of addictive hard work. I'd never found anything really THAT hard before I went to university, and working full time on my year abroad has plunged me back into a world where nothing is really quite so challenging. I mean, having to speak Russian all the time is pretty difficult, but it's still not quite the same amount of pressure. My brain feels like it's rotting a little bit actually, I'm having to bury myself in dissertation work to feel like I'm really pushing myself. So look forward to the challenge

This is so, so, true. It's incredibly hard work, but it's brilliant because for the first time in your life you might be really pushed. And it is addictive. (Not sure it's a good thing that Cambridge can turn you into a workaholic, but if you love the work then maybe it's not so bad?)

I should also note, Dougnuts, that you'll get a slightly gentler introduction than affiliated law students do--four papers instead of five in your first year at Cambridge, and you don't have to do contract or land when you've never studied law. Those come in second year. In all honesty, it's amazing. Don't let us scare you too much! Everyone else will be in the same boat, and most people manage fine.

Considering the workload (I will be doing Economics):
How much time does one have for sport, societies , improving language skills (the Cambridge language centre),...