The Tripos Exam Stress Thread - Current Cambridge Students Only

Reading a book (but not one that will get me thinking about it too hard) sometimes helps me.

Funny, it's the reverse for me. Books that I need to think hard about cause me to fall asleep. This doesn't bode well for my plans to go into research.

You don't happen to have found any projects particularly quick and/or easy do you? :P
Contemplating the factorisation one, as some bits look alright, but I seem to recall someone saying it was pretty bad..

I quit after two projects (16.1 and 14.6). I was planning to do the Representation Theory one but it turned out to be troublesome. If by factorisation you mean the Galois project, it's not actually all that troublesome in the end. Except maybe for the part where they ask you to calculate remainders / quotients, but nothing sophisticated is needed there.

Don't suppose anyone knows where the Sidgwick Avenue Lecture-Rooms are, do they? I have 3 exams in there and my current plan on getting there is to walk up and down Sidgwick Avenue and listen for the nervous mutterings of law students Not sure how great a plan this is...

Don't suppose anyone knows where the Sidgwick Avenue Lecture-Rooms are, do they? I have 3 exams in there and my current plan on getting there is to walk up and down Sidgwick Avenue and listen for the nervous mutterings of law students Not sure how great a plan this is...

I have exams there this year as well. From what I hear it's one of the worst experiences ever - even worse than having them in the law faculty.

I have exams there this year as well. From what I hear it's one of the worst experiences ever - even worse than having them in the law faculty.

I have some in the "Faculty of Law" - I take it that's the standard lecture theatre (LG18/19)?

Also, can anyone tell me where the Corn Exchange is, please? Is it roughly near The Cow?

I have a couple of exams there - the Economics Faculty list those exams as taking place in "Lecture Block" so that would mean the big multi-story lecture building on the right of the Sidgwick Site (if you take the main entrance with the car park, and the cafe on the left).

I have exams there this year as well. From what I hear it's one of the worst experiences ever - even worse than having them in the law faculty.

I have some in the "Faculty of Law" - I take it that's the standard lecture theatre (LG18/19)?

Also, can anyone tell me where the Corn Exchange is, please? Is it roughly near The Cow?

Yes, just opposite it. You can't miss it!

Yeah. Basically, do you know where Christ's is? Walk up from Christ's Porter's Lodge until you get to the road between Disney Shop and the Guildhall. Go down the road and it curves to the right. Follow it and you'll see the main entrance. You'll be going in through the side which is on the right hand side of the building. (I think if you keep going up that road, you come out on King's Parade)

I can confirm that Sidgwick Avenue Lecture Rooms is the same thing as the lecture block - when you get there on the day, it will say on the boards outside which specific room you're in. And I can also confirm that it's kind of uncomfortable, although bearable like Melz0r says. I managed all my second year exams and my finals there without any cushions. What's more annoying is actually how close the person in front is to you, although you forget about it once you start writing.