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Reply 2180

such_a_lady

Original post by anyone_can_fly

Okay, who named it "the Bible"? :dry:

Haha brilliant! There are so many though :s-smilie:

Kinda scary. Also, the PPE section is huge!

Reply 2181

punctuation

Original post by such_a_lady

Ooh Julie did you see the pictures I put up? :smile:

Had you in mind!

OOH NO I DIDN'T! *runs to see*

By the way, we're nearly beating Cambridge! We are so awesome. :wink:

Reply 2182

fluteflute

Original post by anyone_can_fly

Yay! Just finished my first/second draft of my PS. I don't know which to count it as. My previous draft was complete drivel, so this may as well be my first draft.

I'm drafting mine in Google docs (makes it easy to work on both at home and at college).

Original post by anyone_can_fly

(By the way, is there some way someone could add it to the first post so everyone can see it?)

Original post by such_a_lady

You'll probably have to ask Michael to edit his first post :smile:

Alternatively you could ask a moderator to remove the list there, and replace it with a link to the spreadsheet.

Reply 2183

such_a_lady

Original post by punctuation

OOH NO I DIDN'T! *runs to see*

By the way, we're nearly beating Cambridge! We are so awesome. :wink:

Indeed we are. So yeah, Julie, is there anything in particular you'd like us to get hold of or photograph or ask for you? Sven's going to the Science talks and I'm going to the Arts talks, and I'm sure he won't mind acting on your behalf :tongue:

You're so eager, I'd hate for you to miss anything! We get to talk to the tutors and stuff, so...

Reply 2184

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Original post by such_a_lady

You're so eager, I'd hate for you to miss anything! We get to talk to the tutors and stuff, so...

Thanks for all the photos! :biggrin:

They're so pretty.

No, it's fine. Nothing in particular. ^^ Just enjoy yourselves :tongue:

Reply 2185

such_a_lady

Original post by punctuation

Thanks for all the photos! :biggrin:

They're so pretty.

No, it's fine. Nothing in particular. ^^ Just enjoy yourselves :tongue:

I'm sure we will :wink:

oh WAIT. It'll be raining. :sad:

Reply 2186

punctuation

Original post by such_a_lady

I'm sure we will :wink:

oh WAIT. It'll be raining. :sad:

D: Here's hoping the weather changes then.

Reply 2187

anyone_can_fly

Original post by such_a_lady

I'm sure we will :wink:

oh WAIT. It'll be raining. :sad:

I think I jinx universities. I visited St Andrews and it rained all day. I visited UCL and it was bucketing down. I'm like an academic rain god. :sad:

Reply 2188

dnumberwang

Original post by anyone_can_fly

32!

That's amazing. I actually did some preparation (which will make my score even more embarrassing), so I knew it would be a bit insane. I managed to not give up halfway through :proud:

. We had to switch rooms every hour and find a new spare classroom, which was a bit off-putting. I also got freaked out because I solved/thought I'd solved the hardest question, really easily. I think I must have made a massive mistake on that. The other girl doing it from my school thinks she got 0, in which case I may get the chance to be semi-smug.

We had the fire alarm go off in the middle of the Senior Maths Challenge. Inevitably, we all started discussing it, and the common theme was that nobody could do question 1 :lol:

Original post by nightmare91

Yes! I even got his jersey!! :biggrin:

but he's gone now... so sad

Haha everyone here loves him because he scored an insane amount of goals for Manchester United when we were young

Original post by punctuation

Haha wow I'll avoid that JCR then. :tongue:

Cool! Yes I am applying as an international.

Original post by thehaberprocess

You mean the college or the subject? Well, I think I wanted a big college and I've visited oxford before. The others don't seem to grab me. BTW the Balliol JCR is a ****hole. As for the subject, I LOVE chemistry. It's pretty much the only thing I can do without making reckless mistakes. I noticed that your location is Canada. Are you applying as an international? :smile:

yeah I remember it having a low ceiling for some reason

Reply 2189

such_a_lady

Original post by anyone_can_fly

I think I jinx universities. I visited St Andrews and it rained all day. I visited UCL and it was bucketing down. I'm like an academic rain god. :sad:

So I'm going to hope that it only starts raining when you arrive in Oxford :tongue:

doubt it, though. Let me check.

Ooh, seems to have improved, instead of 60% chance rain it's 40%, and it'll only be a shower, hopefully. Is 23kmph wind a lot? I hate wind and rain together :frown:

I'm wearing a pretty dress as well...

OH MY GOSH WHAT WAS ST. ANDREW'S LIKE?!!?!?!? I really want to go there!! It's 8.5 hours away so I'm not visiting :sad:

Reply 2190

fluteflute

Original post by anyone_can_fly

I think I jinx universities. I visited St Andrews and it rained all day. I visited UCL and it was bucketing down. I'm like an academic rain god. :sad:

In Southampton our binmen are currently on strike and there's rubbish piled up all over the place. I wonder if that's going to put anybody off when they come for the University of Southampton opendays this week :tongue:

It rained, very heavily at one point, when I went to Oxford for the CS open day in May. Didn't spoil the day at all though!

(edited 12 years ago)

Reply 2191

punctuation

we are now officially tied with the cambridge thread

Reply 2192

dragonmeister

Original post by punctuation

we are now officially tied with the cambridge thread

Now we are - 2198 each, with us due to cement our lead soon

Reply 2193

MeeMee

Original post by such_a_lady

I'm sure we will :wink:

oh WAIT. It'll be raining. :sad:

Well. For non-British people who love clichés like myself even knowing that those are untrue, this will make the experience much more British :biggrin:

I know it doesn't rain that much in England. When I went last time I stayed for nearly two weeks and it rained a single time while in Germany it was pouring all the time (or so I was told)

IT WAS MY POST THAT MADE US BEAT CAMBRIDGE THEN?!?!? :biggrin:

(Julie, are you gonna give me another award for this?)

Reply 2194

such_a_lady

Original post by punctuation

Made me giggle so much.

Reply 2195

fluteflute

Original post by punctuation

we are now officially tied with the cambridge thread

And we're now officially in the lead :biggrin:

Reply 2196

such_a_lady

Original post by MeeMee

Well. For non-British people who love clichés like myself even knowing that those are untrue, this will make the experience much more British :biggrin:

(Julie, are you gonna give me another award for this?)

Hmm well that isn't much of a consolation for me who has to put up with this weather all the time :frown:

I wonder what the other Germans think.

Yes, it does rain a lot. Believe me, it does. You were clearly lucky. :frown:

Wooo, page 111 :biggrin:

Reply 2197

punctuation

Original post by MeeMee

Well. For non-British people who love clichés like myself even knowing that those are untrue, this will make the experience much more British :biggrin:

(Julie, are you gonna give me another award for this?)

YOU GET ALL THE AWARDS! Here I'll make you one. brb.

I keep forgetting where you hail from! DO TELL ME.

Reply 2198

nightmare91

btw do the people on the cambridge thread ever talk about us? :biggrin:

Reply 2199

MeeMee

Original post by punctuation

YOU GET ALL THE AWARDS! Here I'll make you one. brb.

I keep forgetting where you hail from! DO TELL ME.

I'm German and I live in Germany but since I used to live in the States I like to tell people I'm American. No particular reason though. But Americans can't tell I'm not when I talk to them (once a guy mistook my accent for a Michigan one which really confused me because that's not even close to where I used to live).

And yay for awards :smile:

I should write about those in my PS. wonder what they'd do with that...