The Official Cambridge Applicants' 2011 Entry Thread MKII (Please read FAQs)

He likes to think he is Actually his taste in music is pretty good. There's rather a lot of his old CDs on my iPod.

I like Egypt. nice and hot, just find the right hotel and don't leave the complex and you will be fine
When I went we were at a 5 star hotel (OK, to our standards it would be 4) but it was great, all inclusive and they had a bar in the swimming pool! So you could swim and get a drink while swimming!

I've got a free as well and I think that I'll stay at home until I've got the letter.

Let's meet up and get astonishingly drunk! Haha

BOO STATS!!!! Real Mathematicians do Mechanics!

I'm not saying the hotels aren't good; they are, or I wouldn't return there (I went before). I went out on a day trip to another dive site, though, and passed through some actual Egypt. Not at all a pretty sight. Travelling through it would be awful.

If I ever make it into Cambridge, I desperately need to do something about my work motivation. There has been work to do for weeks, and I told myself I would take my time to do it during Christmas break. Now it's the 29th and here I am.
I can't force myself to start since I still have a tiny spark of hope that I will get an offer, in which case I WOULD NOT NEED TO DO the work. On the other hand, I ought to work as in case of a rejection, I need good grades to perhaps get a graduate place in Cambridge later.
Sweet dilemma. Being this lazy, I wouldn't survive a week in Cambridge.

I love the fact that you always stay up till ridiculous times.

G'night!

Quite. It would be great if we could choose our dreams, wouldn't it?
I had an offer dream last night My subconscious seems slightly more optimistic than my conscious.

Anyway, the middle east is crap. Haven't you watched top gear? Personal experience: I came back from Egypt a week ago ish - which must be representative of the middle east, given it's a sandy islamic republic - and it's just a desert with the occasional collection of shacks dotted about. Unfinished shacks, too, since they can't get credit over there, and have to start building something so the government doesn't take their land off them. There's nothing interesting there at all. The meat doesn't taste like meat, the women don't look like women - rather, like ninjas - and camels aren't as fun as you imagine. Don't romanticise it.
Travel through somewhere good, like the far east, or America.

Ye actual Egypt isn't that nice, but u go to Egypt for the beach, not the buildings they can't be bothered to finish!

Ahhh of course! All 5! Ahhh I've never been a master of Rubix cubes, I get happy when I get one side!

They'd absolutely love it if you did that! They'd ask you to teach them all your tricks

Hmm, although the journey is only 45mins-1 hour, if we didn't turn the car heating on it COULD stay fresh! Although yes, my parents would most probably notice!

Too much work, stress, depression. I was pretty young and oblivious at the time, so don't know a lot of the details but my parents keep coming out with 'I just don't think that place is good for our family' kinda thing, but they may well have had the same experience had they gone elsewhere.

Hey, I'm a good boy during term time and you can hardly talk! :P



Egypt is quite westernised though. Besides, it's a logical fallacy to move from the particular to the general. There are so many parts of the middle east which would be far more interesting, however, I do want to visit Egypt in the summer if I can afford it, so stop Egypt-bashing!

Ugh. I've realised I printed out the wrong timetable for summer exams. I did 2010 instead of 2011. Thought I had a nice time table. NOPE.
Wednesday 22nd June
FP1 - AM
FP2 - AM
BY5 - AM

>.< I am doing FP1 in Jan, so hopefully won't need to resit that. But BY5 and FP2 in one moning. No fun (N)

I am in no way committing that fallacy. It is reasonable to surmise that in a country, similar to Egypt, where there is no credit, the building will be bad and unfinished, knowing, as we do, that the buildings in Egypt are unfinished because of the lack of credit. It is reasonable to surmise that, in a country similar to Egypt, where the country is a desert... that it will be a desert. It is reasonable to surmise that, in a country similar to Egypt, where the state religion is Islam, the meat won't taste like meat - because it will be halal - and the women won't look like women - because they will be covered. I am in no way asserting that it is certain that these will all be the case, but it seems rather likely, doesn't it?

but halal meat tastes pretty much the same though...

1. You don't go to egypt for the beach, otherwise you could just go to any old s***hole for a beach like spain or something.

2. No doubt Egypt is an absolute hole, (i've been) and it's in no way representative of the middle east. Neither are Dubai, Qatar, Bahrain etc.

3. The true middle east such as syria is full of iconic historical sites which an academic or historian would love to visit, sadly if your looking for a beach it's probably not for you, stick to spain. (that said there is a beach there)

but halal meat tastes pretty much the same though...

Yes. Pretty much the same as polystyrene.
The flavour is in the blood. Draining the blood out of meat is like draining the fat out of cheese.