The Official Cambridge Offer Holders Thread 2017 Entry

As per Doonesbury, those groups are just there for people to fill with spam to either trick unsuspecting freshers into buying tickets for events they don't need or annoying them with useless crap. There's an official FB Cambridge group run by CUSU, is it really that hard to just stick with that...?

Hey Zacken, random question but is it possible to get a room with a piano in it in your first year if you're not studying Music?

Hey Zacken, random question but is it possible to get a room with a piano in it in your first year if you're not studying Music?

Hey Zacken, random question but is it possible to get a room with a piano in it in your first year if you're not studying Music?

How do you have an unconditional if you're doing your A levels? : o

He/She has 10 A levels + I think (so already have some achieved A Levels)

Saw it in another thread.


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Ha ha, thank you agent Wolf. I will have 10 but no '+' 🙂, Unlike Ali Moeen Nawazish with his 22 A-levels in 2009! There are some really smart people at Cambridge!

Sounds like it is more like 12-14 if you ignore duplicates and near-duplicates (Further Maths vs General Further Maths(?!), Computer Science vs ICT) and the usual suspects (Critical Thinking, General Studies, Thinking Skills, General Paper), but still oviously very impressive, if only because it would take enormous stamina to remember all those mark schemes.

Interestingly, he only got 2:2s in his first two years, and a 2:1 in his last; so even the most intimidating figures at Cambridge might not be as impressive as they appear (or perhaps he just got into alcohol and rowing).

'Intimidating figures'? That is a large part of joining Cambridge for me. I want to be with smart people whom I can learn from and share ideas. Isn't that the point? We will be studying together, although eventually competing for jobs, the smarter the better!

Up to a point, surely? Or would you still feel the same way if everyone else doing your subject were quite literally the Eulers, Heisenbergs, Einsteins, von Neumanns, Leibnizs, Newtons (haha), Diracs, Gausses, Cantors, Riemanns, Noethers, Weierstrasses, Keplers, etc. of your field (whatever it is)?

All colleges have music practice rooms with piano which can be used by any student who needs it.
Some (very few, afaik) colleges have very limited number of rooms in which you can have piano/keyboards, usually at extra cost, so if it's essential to have a piano in your own room, you can try applying for it even in the first year, but if you're not reading Music, possibility of getting is probably not very high.

^#priorities

It's a shame, if I started piano a year or two earlier, I might have been able to apply for the music scholarship you kappa

Hey Zacken, random question but is it possible to get a room with a piano in it in your first year if you're not studying Music?

Hey fellow piano player! 🙋 when did you start learning?

Also when I was at Selwyn for interview I ended up talking to this music student who had a grand piano in his room. A grand piano!!! And he said he got offered it because the organ scholar didn't want it! Crazy organ scholar!!

Urgh... I think it's been 7 and a half years? I'm meant to be preparing for Grade 8 but I almost never practice anymore wbu?

As per Doonesbury, those groups are just there for people to fill with spam to either trick unsuspecting freshers into buying tickets for events they don't need or annoying them with useless crap. There's an official FB Cambridge group run by CUSU, is it really that hard to just stick with that...?

Yeah I know, the link I shared was posted by the official FB Cambridge group run by the CUSU.

Now there's a question... I started in year 2 so 11 years I think? Cor blimey.

I can totally relate with the practising thing though, last year I did my grade 8 and just couldn't find the time to practise so ended up barely scraping a pass lmao, I don't think I'd get very far with the instrumental awards 😂

Yeah once you get to like grade 7/8, none of the pieces are really fun anymore, you just have to play them cos you have to