Societies - what floats your boat

Ooh I've heard about the Assassins' guild, sounds fun The coffee drinking society caught my eye actually, just for it's randomness..

I want to do hockey competitively for college/uni, and probably some other random ones, music I want to keep up...is there a Buffy society?

for a list of what is available see: http://www.cusu.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/socindex.cgi

Ooh I've heard about the Assassins' guild, sounds fun The coffee drinking society caught my eye actually, just for it's randomness..

There's an assassins' guild!? I would have thought this kind of thing would be outlawed.

It probably should be some people (one of my friends included) take it far far too seriously. It's when they have large supersoaker water pistols, rubber band guns and nerf guns in lectures and will always arrive ten minutes late and leave ten minutes early that one gets worried. Apparently it is good fun though, I'm not convinced.

Alaric.

At Cam however I've heard the student papers (Varsity & TCS) are a lot more selective - perhaps they get too many stories, and often they heavily edit them.

They edit them? You wouldn't be able to guess . The ridiculous stupidity of some of the columnists in those rags is abhorrent, I sometimes suspect it's their journalistic form of trolling. Usually the front page article is worth reading, probably not much else.

I know someone who reviews some music for them though, I suspect you just need to volunteer and look keen. Dreamer, try not to annoy me with stupid ill conceived and even worse researched articles that make you sound like a elitist vitriolic eejit.

Alaric.

"The only good tab is a dead tab..."

Slogan from inter-varsity paintballing. There should be way more events like this.

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Aye, I was thinking about the varsity team although I'm not a 100% sure as to quite what the level is... I'd love to get the oppurtunity to play but at the same time amn't sure as to how much I'd be prepared to sacrifice for it...

I've heard CUR is good though. Well OK my source was biased. Do you know Natalie Corless, Alaric? 1st yr land econ at Clare, has a show on CUR. Sounds much better than Oxford's student radio station, and she get to interview loads of cool people

A friend of mine plays hockey for Wales and 1st blues team, 1st blues women's rugby, college hockey, college rugby, college 1st VIII.

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At cam they tend to suggest that people of county level go to the trials, there you'll find out if you're good enough!

It does seem to take up a lot of time though, I was talking with someone I know who is on the university badminton team and their weekly practice is 5 hours long and the also do circuit training at some point during the week. Oh and they have to fit matches in there somewhere too! I think they may have practices during the week too, but only the really big one on the weekend.

You certainly can fit it in, but don't expect to fit much else in!!!

Alaric.

Cambridge: Rowing, Drinking Society (there is one, right?), Debating Society

These are the things I will investigate at the fair (cambridge)

Polo club
rowing
Riding club
ski and snowboard
swimming
boat club
canoe club (maybe)
windsurfing club
yoga society
Andean archeaology society
Black & Asian Caucus
The Cambridge Union
Clay pigeon shooting club
international society

Is there no yacht/sailing club in Cam?

For someone with reasonable time management skills, does anybody at cam/ox know, realistically, how much spare time people get to indulge in these kind of activities?????

erm...

debating/union
amnesty/human rights issues
badminton/squash
salsa dancing
anything connected with teaching
law soc
med soc
science soc

ive made those up- hoping some of these things are there!

They edit them? You wouldn't be able to guess . The ridiculous stupidity of some of the columnists in those rags is abhorrent, I sometimes suspect it's their journalistic form of trolling. Usually the front page article is worth reading, probably not much else.

I know someone who reviews some music for them though, I suspect you just need to volunteer and look keen. Dreamer, try not to annoy me with stupid ill conceived and even worse researched articles that make you sound like a elitist vitriolic eejit.

Alaric.

Law soc and med soc are incompatible. You would not find it pleasant being at both i can assure you
J

A cambridge drinking society...are you nuts?
There are literally over a hundred of drinking socs, several in each college. From the famous selwyn swallows, to the infamous st johns rugger buggers.