Successful Cambridge Applicants Chat - 2006

I got fed up of explaining what STEP is, so I just gave up and started saying "AA, plus decent grades in a couple of additional hard maths papers".

"We Brits make films like The Ghost Train while you Yanks make snakes on a plane..."
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I got fed up of explaining what STEP is, so I just gave up and started saying "AA, plus decent grades in a couple of additional hard maths papers". Honestly, if the unwashed masses don't know about the Maths Tripos admissions process, how can we expect them to succeed in life?

I always say that they're 'Cambridge maths entrance exams'. And that I might or might not get it. And I'm about ready to throttle the next person who responds with 'oh, I'm sure you'll get in'.

Thankfully I haven't had many people say things of that ilk to me. (Don't know if that's a good thing or bad thing, mind. )

I do remember being asked where I was going to uni by a cabbie taking me back from the local station. I said "hopefully Cambridge", and I could've sworn he then informed me that it wasn't the place to go if you wanted "a bit of crack". Whaaa...?

He could be Cumbrian, in which case 'crack' would mean 'conversation'.

You learn something every day. Although I'm not sure if that makes much sense in that context.

It would round here. 'A bit of crack' meaning something like 'a good laugh' or 'a decent chat'. I thought of what Rpotter said first but was far too polite to say it.

only one month and 6 days left to wait!

"A bit of crack" could also mean a certain recreational drug...

Yes, I think everyone else was taking that one for granted, as per his original post.

37 days!

I like stating the obvious . It did strike me as odd though, that no-one had mentioned it yet.

It would round here. 'A bit of crack' meaning something like 'a good laugh' or 'a decent chat'. I thought of what Rpotter said first but was far too polite to say it.

I can think of another context in which it makes sense, but you people would call me sick if I were to say it.

And I'd been doing so well at not looking at the countdown!

And I'd been doing so well at not looking at the countdown!

Time is going so quickly! Rather than worrying, at the moment I seem to be in a state of euphoric denial or something I cant seem to come to terms with the fact that my exams are being marked and the results are coming soon

;danceboy; * music* ITs the final countdown...... *music*