The Official 2017 Cambridge Applicants Thread [part 3]

Original post by SteamboatMickey

It's about to change again! Yeah, I'm procrastinating my coursework by trying to find different Sherlock images. Trying to find one that looks the best and not too small or too pixelated. :tongue:

Oooh, that one's great! (An an inventive way to procrastinate. :biggrin:

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Original post by jneill

Let us know when you are succesful.

:wink:

Think I've settled for one (for now now at least) :wink:

Reply 4923

Went to go and do some coursework and the Sherlock radio advert for tomorrow came on :eek:

someone doesn't want me to concentrate

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Original post by SteamboatMickey

Think I've settled for one (for now now at least) :wink:

It's a really good one. :smile:

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Original post by fablereader

It's a really good one. :smile:

I'm a little obsessed aren't I? :holmes:

just a little

Reply 4926

Original post by SteamboatMickey

Went to go and do some coursework and the Sherlock radio advert for tomorrow came on :eek:

someone doesn't want me to concentrate

That is just - just - cruel!! (Also, now I want to rewatch the latest episodes of Sherlock. Thanks, you've spread the distraction.)

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@jneill think that, whether or not I get an offer, I'm gonna stick around and help you on the other thread just tag me if there is anything I can help you with :biggrin:

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Original post by SteamboatMickey

I'm a little obsessed aren't I? :holmes:

just a little

Maybe just a tad. :biggrin:

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Doones

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Original post by SteamboatMickey

Think I've settled for one (for now now at least) :wink:

Oooo controversial. (I like it)

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Original post by jneill

Oooo controversial. (I like it)

It's up there with my favourites (I love the abominable bride)

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Original post by fablereader

That is just - just - cruel!! (Also, now I want to rewatch the latest episodes of Sherlock. Thanks, you've spread the distraction.)

Honey should see me in a crown :crown:

if this thread was mine to spam it'd just be sherlock quotes and pointless historical factoids at this point :lol:

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Original post by SteamboatMickey

Honey should see me in a crown :crown:

if this thread was mine to spam it'd just be sherlock quotes and pointless historical factoids at this point :lol:

Pointless historical factoid - the historian Plutarch reports that Caesar said 'alea iacta est' in Greek. :biggrin:

(Oh great, now I really want to read Plutarch. Again.)

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Original post by fablereader

Pointless historical factoid - the historian Plutarch reports that Caesar said 'alea iacta est' in Greek. :biggrin:

(Oh great, now I really want to read Plutarch. Again.)

I love it omg :lol:

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Original post by SteamboatMickey

I love it omg :lol:

There's also the (possibly even more pointless) factoid about Romans drinking urine, but that's disputed, i.e. I think that, based on one source, they didn't, while the internet thinks 'Yes, they did.'

Reply 4935

neyscar

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Original post by thebelljar98

Rejected two days ago and it's only hitting me now :frown:

Same. I was an English applicant too. So sorry you didn't get an offer. I thought I'd feel better after a couple of days but if anything I feel worse. I don't think I've ever felt this awful because it's a weird kind of awful. I feel proud to have even been considered for interview but it feels like Cambridge proposed to me and then told me on our wedding day at the altar that they didn't love me anymore (over-dramatic, I know). I'm having a huge existential crisis right now.

The worst part is that I think I know why I got rejected and it was literally one thing I said at the end of the first interview which I definitely shouldn't have said. The nervousness made me become WAYYYY too honest, it was like word vomit and I think it ruined everything for me. Before I was like "oh well, I tried my best and it didn't work out" but now, after this realisation, I'm like "it's literally all my fault, I've let everyone down because I couldn't keep my mouth shut for two seconds at the end like a fool and now I will suffer for my own stupidity and have this loom over me for the rest of my life". So yeah, everything's great!!! :colondollar:

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Original post by fablereader

There's also the (possibly even more pointless) factoid about Romans drinking urine, but that's disputed, i.e. I think that, based on one source, they didn't, while the internet thinks 'Yes, they did.'

That's the problem. That's one of the things that made me feel like I need to go into History because a lot of what we know is manufactured by media hyped 'fake' facts (i.e. based on little substance but sounds fun) and this is the 'image' of History that we carry with us, teach to our children, and forms - perhaps subconsciously so- but forms a part of our subconscious ability to judge the pst and judge others because these 'fake' facts aid the building of our subconscious framework of understanding i.e. the precedent we experience the world.

:holmes:

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