The Cambridge Chat Thread - it's over 90,000!

Still not convinced the idea is totally sensible/sane though.

Can I be nosy? Not going to steal, not like it would make much difference except in competition for supervisors, I guess I think I've got a fairly reasonable idea, just waiting for people to get back to me.

The weirdest thing just happened. I was lying in bed and was just drifting to sleep when I suddenly came up with a topic for my Part II project next year. Done some quick research and it seems the exact idea hasn't been done before and it may be feasible. Emailed the supervisor I had in mind and just hoping he hasn't got supervisees already Still not convinced the idea is totally sensible/sane though.

Scotland-Devon? Respect! ahah, alright, Cambridge- Durham is a lot better.

I know your boyfriend was in Cambridge but... Do you think that I would ever be able to go to Durham during term time with the 6 day lectures?

I now have a College Little Brother. Now to wait for news of my children...

How does that work? One of your college parents adopted a fresher?

Mind you, I don't think I'll have much to say. I tried to draft a letter earlier and Googled him to find out more about him - he's actually in my year (so must've taken a gap year) and comes from an independent school with three of his peers already at Pembroke. They've probably told him about all of the social activities, so I haven't got much to say except about studying Law, which makes me sound thoroughly uninteresting.

Maybe the best way forward here is to act as though you have not thoroughly stalked him on the internet, and add all the social stuff anyway? :P
It's a win-win situation - he doesn't think you're a stalker and you get loads more to write!

Unless he's one of the many CamChat stalkers... oh sorry, I meant lurkers...

Erm...no, that was a bit of a misnomer. My DoS has asked us to write to the fresher lawyers, so he's my mentee (i.e. "Little Brother" under the terminology of the American mentoring scheme thing I linked). However, I'm also a parent under the College parenting scheme, so I'll have some children too - of which he may or may not be one. I didn't think it right to call him my son, so I tried to find another way of referring to him.

Mind you, I don't think I'll have much to say. I tried to draft a letter earlier and Googled him to find out more about him - he's actually in my year (so must've taken a gap year) and comes from an independent school with three of his peers already at Pembroke. They've probably told him about all of the social activities, so I haven't got much to say except about studying Law, which makes me sound thoroughly uninteresting.

Just take the Gethsemane342 approach i.e. write a joke letter of truly awful proportions. You say almost nothing useful, write the full letter AND he's scared of you. Win-win

I've gotta be honest, I am quite tempted! I've had enough of writing at the moment so it may well be going in its current state if I don't get around to redrafting it. I spent the whole day writing an article on solicitor advocacy for the Careers section of Per Inc (we've got nothing else to go in there, as it stands) and I reeeeally didn't enjoy doing it. How much did I write, you ask? 800 words. FML.

Just take the Gethsemane342 approach i.e. write a joke letter of truly awful proportions. You say almost nothing useful, write the full letter AND he's scared of you. Win-win

I thought TWW was doing something on the LPC? There must be some friendly 2nd years (or are we third years now?) who could write something. I'd volunteer but apart from the fact I've already written that monster of an EU piece, the only thing I could contribute is how not to apply to law firms since I'm doing well on that front...

Yeah, but that's for the edition after that, I thought. I've only just realised that with the vac scheme deadline in January, this edition should've been the "bumper Careers edition", but I haven't had much success in contacting lawyers anyway, let alone in getting them to write about careers. Don't worry about it - I'll think of something. If all else fails, I'll stick in a few extra features.

Thanks again for the EU piece - the "Ode to Joy" ending really made me laugh!