Prospective Gonville & Caius Students

Oh yeah..lol..whoops...my brain isn't working properly

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Apparently yes. Quite a few students told me they have seen him around a fair bit. His office is just inside the main court I think. A student also told me someone once tried to 'penny' Stephen Hawking at formal hall, although that sounds like a myth...

Apparently he's a real git. Almost ran over my friend with his buggy thing...

brought up an old thread, didn't i...
if u guys are still here around the forum or there is anyone who knows about it, can u give some ideas about what the interview for Econ would be like in Caius and if the TSA really rates in the Admission process?

Apparently he's a real git. Almost ran over my friend with his buggy thing...

My friend said exactly the same thing

i have been summoned?

expenses - moderately high, why? dinner tickets. at slightly less than 5 quid per dinner, and 45 compulsory dinners, compared to an average Kitchen Fixed Charge at other colleges of 80 to 120 quid a term... then again, the KFC doesn't come with any food... still, that's over 200 quid a term compulsory spending, when student cooking is usually a lot cheaper than that.

rent is quite average - by and large HC rents fluctuate between 650 and 720 quid a term for 10 weeks rent. there are exceptions - get the ex-room of the Saudi prince (rumoured to be the largest in cambridge, and certainly capable of accomodating a game of badminton...), and expect to pay 800+.

suicide? not that i know of. rumours of 1 girl who dropped out of her finals in college this year, but that's about it. we do have a nice tower overlooking market square though, for those so inclined...

pressure cooker? DOSes and supervisors do like to make sure you are on top of your work, unlike some friends at other colleges who are pretty much left to their own devices throughout the year (and get a certain sinking feeling in easter)... nowhere near the reputation of Christ's though.

i think lately john's has been taking the lead in terms of student costs - attributed to poor college finances and the powers-that-be taking out their financial frustrations on the students same happened at king's, but the students fought back , and won!

Thanks, that's really useful information that I haven'd heard anywhere else - and I've been reading about Caius for over an year now, before and after I applied last year! I'm wondering, how does first year room selection work? Are there price categories and you pick one? Or is there a list of rooms with differing prices and you pick one of those? Or what?

thanks,

random lottery, actually. sometime in september you will get a thick wad of papers containing a million things to fill out, pay for, read about, etc. - all rather exciting, as i remember.

if you're really strapped for cash or something, just ring the tutorial office to request for a low rent room, otherwise you'll be put into the great big first-year accoms lottery like everybody else. some get lucky, others don't get a network point