Successful Cambridge Applicants Chat - 2006

Has anybody here ever watched Science Abuse? Lots of EXPLOSIONSSS

I love it. I think Hammond is adorable.

Im so jealous of all the things you guys get to make in science. The only fun thing I ever did in science at any point were in year 4 when we were taught about permenant and temporary changes through the magic that is popcorn, and melting chocolate...

oh ,and i had a chip (as in "fish and...") fight during my practical gcse biology thing; that was ok :smile:

Reply 602

panda11

Duke Flipside

Also, anyone else a fan of Hagen-Daaz Bailey's..?

My cousin and I once ate a whole tub (one of those 500g ones) when we went to the cinema... Then I made the mistake of getting completely blind drunk on Baileys and Vodka (not together, but I used the same glass so I had scummy lumps of Baileys floating round the Vodka) when I was 15, threw up all over my friend's bath and haven't touched anything to do with Baileys since :frown:

Sassygirl: nice picture! Can't believe you get to dress weird when it's your school's birthday... we get to all sing a song that the music teacher made up about the school's saint (and namesake).

"Holy St Francis, your life we acclaim,
your words encourage and inspire us"

:rolleyes:

Can't ever see it entering the Top 10...

Reply 603

KAISER_MOLE

7

We never get to make anything exciting in Chemistry lessons, except of course polymers in plastic cups, oh what fun we had...

Brainiac are a menace to Caravan parks everywhere, one has to be very wary now when booking holidays in Cornwall

Reply 604

sassygirl

panda11

My cousin and I once ate a whole tub (one of those 500g ones) when we went to the cinema... Then I made the mistake of getting completely blind drunk on Baileys and Vodka (not together, but I used the same glass so I had scummy lumps of Baileys floating round the Vodka) when I was 15, threw up all over my friend's bath and haven't touched anything to do with Baileys since :frown:

Sassygirl: nice picture! Can't believe you get to dress weird when it's your school's birthday... we get to all sing a song that the music teacher made up about the school's saint (and namesake).

"Holy St Francis, your life we acclaim,
your words encourage and inspire us"

:rolleyes:

Can't ever see it entering the Top 10...

Thanks! The closest we have to a school song is 'Jerusalem' (words by Blake). Not that anybody can hit the high notes anyway...

It's like when people sing Happy Birthday.

Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
Happy ____day dear X
Happy birthday to you.

That 'birth' just never seems to be spoken.

Our school specialises in dressing up on weird days. We have a themed charity day every year. Our school b-day was amazing. The teachers all dressed up as T-Birds and Pink Ladies and sang 'Summer Days' from Grease. Live, with a teacher-band and everything. My biology teacher has some very tight leather trousers. It's quite disturbing.

Reply 605

panda11

sassygirl

My biology teacher has some very tight leather trousers. It's quite disturbing.

lol!

On the subject of tight trousers... our ex-Drama teacher used to cycle to school wearing an all-in-one lycra outfit :eek:

Reply 606

sassygirl

panda11

lol!

On the subject of tight trousers... our ex-Drama teacher used to cycle to school wearing an all-in-one lycra outfit :eek:

I did my physics coursework on spandex aka lycra. Cue lots of powerpoint pictures of my favourite superheroes. Oh, and Angelina Jolie. Our school has a sucky filter-system, and I couldn't access any of the spandex websites. Obviously they were all rather, er, perverse.

Reply 607

sassygirl

Sounds cool. I go to an all-girl's school so it might be a bit less fun at my school but nonetheless gossip does travel quickly. I go to Perse Girls, which is a middle-class private school full of overachieving girls. Quite a lot of Perse Girls go to either Perse Boys in the 6th Form or Hills Road 6th Form. So gossip (variations on a theme) kind of circulates around these 3 Cambridge 6th Form colleges. Basically, my friend who went to Hills Road asked me the other day 'Is B.E. going out with an undertaker?'. Truth of the matter is, Becca's just friends with him and has been friends with him for a long time. So I told this Hills Road friend the other day to spread some really weird rumours about me, and we had some fun making something up. We wanted something really weird, but plausible still (for me at least). My vampire loveage is pretty well-known, so this is what we came up with:

"Beibei met this weird blood fetishist in an online forum, met up with him in London over half term, and is now dating him. And what's more it turns out he's set up a cult dedicated to worshipping vampires (specifically Lestat)."

I wonder if my rather flawless reputation will survive such a barrage.

Reply 608

sassygirl

I just noticed St Catz hasn't been assigned the colour. So I'll choose muaha.

Is there a sort of aqua colour? Blue-green.

Reply 609

Loocy

Toscar

hee hee ; you said "wee" :biggrin:

( am i the only person who finds that even remotely amusing?....yup, thought so!)

Oh shush. Wee is a good word. :p:

wanderer

I've been to T in the Park, '03 and '04. It was class. Can't afford it this year though, and even if I did I'm not a big fan of the Chilli Peppers.

I'm not either actually, to be completely honest.. I saw them at gig on the green (when it still existed :frown:

) and they were sort of bland. The rest of the line-up is grrreat though.

You guys got to make chocolate in chemistry? Oo, chemistry investigation idea. :biggrin:

Reply 610

mrcheese

Hey, this isn't spam, well yes it is :redface:

It's just there was a lot of support for him in here, and being a complete looser i made an eddie izzard appreciation society. So if you wanna go post something, then feel free :p:

Reply 611

panda11

sassygirl

Sounds cool. I go to an all-girl's school so it might be a bit less fun at my school but nonetheless gossip does travel quickly. I go to Perse Girls, which is a middle-class private school full of overachieving girls.

Do you know Caroline Lester? I think she goes there...

Reply 612

afoneleri

Toscar

Im so jealous of all the things you guys get to make in science. The only fun thing I ever did in science at any point were in year 4 when we were taught about permenant and temporary changes through the magic that is popcorn, and melting chocolate...

oh ,and i had a chip (as in "fish and...") fight during my practical gcse biology thing; that was ok :smile:

I'm jealous too...the only interesting thing we've done all year in chemistry was cut open a battery, and I missed that because of my hepatits B vaccination... :mad:

Reply 613

Aired

1

The most interesting thing I've done in chemistry is tyedye a piece of fabric using an azo dye I made :rolleyes:

Reply 614

sarahliz12345

red lead in acid (I think, though hydrogen peroxide rings a bell!) = a huge shoot of steam. There's a murky orange splodge on the ceiling in our lab from last year from someone putting too much lead in! Chem experiments are fun ( unlike physics which either a) don't work, or b) are boring IMO!).

(any physicists sorry, feel free to disagree!)

Reply 615

afoneleri

I usually enjoy biology experiments more than chem ones, because the chem ones all seem a little monotonous (but that's mainly because we get graded on lab write ups and its easier to do a good write up on a simple lab). I remeber disecting cow eyes in 11th grade - now that was interesting. Funnily enough, I was the only one on my bench who didn't mind touching the thing... :rolleyes:

Reply 616

sassygirl

panda11

Do you know Caroline Lester? I think she goes there...

Yup, I do. She's in my tutor group.

Reply 617

parsleythelion

1

Well, most our Chemistry practicals seem to be made more exciting by the incompetence of our teacher, who tends to let us pour everything down the sink when we're done with it, leading to the classroom filling with HCl fumes on one occasion. :rolleyes:

She's also set fire to her labcoat more than once this year (while wearing it.)

Sassygirl: your school sounds very much like the Cambridge version of my Oxford one! (Our headmistress is quoted in a textbook on anorexia, just to give an impression of how pressured and neurotic the atmosphere is. :eek:

)

Reply 618

sassygirl

Ah, there was an interesting chemistry experiment the other day. Basically, a lot of gas was being produced when you added X to Y in the conical flask. People thought it would be fun to stick bungs in and watch them ping up to the ceiling. Only one person stuck in their bung too tight.. and it would ping up at all. So the flask exploded instead. Glass everywhere.

Other regular end-of-year experiments include 'screaming jelly babies', watching potassium whoosh around on water and doing 'fireworks'. Basically spraying stuff onto a flame and looking at the purty colours.

Reply 619

Robob

17

sarahliz12345

(any physicists sorry, feel free to disagree!)

Hmm nah I agree physics experiments at A-level are quite boring, but you have to make them fun. If you are investigating capacitors, see what voltage you need to blow them up (prefferably when the teacher is out of the room), I you do you get a nice shower of confetti. This can be repeated for most electronic equipment (apart from expensive stuff obviously)

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