Successful Cambridge Applicants Chat - 2006

I hope you wrote "where k=1000"!

probably half way through when i get bored

So you're into the ancient wonders, i'm jealous if you've been to Egypt! My my, a simple conversation sounds a lot more clever with words like necropolisis..

When that happens to me, the higlighters come out to play.
My general studies paper was illuminous

I probably spelt it wrong..
Im into intresting things
Yeh my dad had an appartment in alexandria, so i spent my year 6 summer holidays learning heirogyphics.

i had a UV pen, and just wrote nasty stuff to the examiner in it, hopefully he didnt mark it with a UV light in the room..

I love those stories you hear about candidates who plead/attempt to converse with the examiner. 'I'm running out of time, but If was allowed more I would have said..... *lists argument in bullet form*'

yes the only trouble with heirogylphs is that if you cant draw you cant really write...
like a was one bird (vulture i think) and w was another bird (quail i think) also M was an owl so it got confusing for words like wam...

ive never done that...
however everybody in my year apart from me and a few others wrote a story about a character called The examiner and they had to mention 8 key words in the story,, they where something like, bitty pie, squirel, the da vinchi code etc (for general studies)

Wow, Egypt is fascinating, I always wonder at how there could have been such sophisticated civilisations, including the Greeks and Romans etc. and then there was the medieval time, which almost seems like a regression..

Anyhow, am getting sleepy so had best be bidding you all good night, am playing a bit of tennis tommorow, hopefully won't be as hot as today..so need to get enough sleep or will play worse than my usual poor performance!

Bye all!

Ahh yeh, all the games my friends played with General Studies. One was to get in as many Dylan songs as possible. I think the winner managed about 15?!

I love History, I study *studied* (dont like saying that) for A2! Trouble is, its modern history and I'd much prefer ancient! Sod's law is that thayve introduced an Ancient History course at college now i've left

we could of done ancient history but one person did it, and 30 people did normal history, it was in the Era of Charles the 2nd, and the evil oliver cromwell grrr
ancient history was the battle of thermopylae and fun stuff like that, i went to the lessons just cause its like awh xerxes lost...

we could of done ancient history but one person did it, and 30 people did normal history, it was in the Era of Charles the 2nd, and the evil oliver cromwell grrr
ancient history was the battle of thermopylae and fun stuff like that, i went to the lessons just cause its like awh xerxes lost...