Emmanuel College (Cambridge) Students and Applicants

In my year it's only U staircase who are still known as that - bearing in mind we're going into fourth year it's not that usual!

Pedant When I said it's directly opposite the bar I meant it's one of the two middle staircases along the corridor and approximately a two second walk to the entrance. M isn't directly opposite the entrance either! And yeah, U1 is to the left as far as I remember.

M is very much directly opposite the bar! The entrance to M is in line with the Bar entrance!

Clearly my bad memory then! Either way, it's not like U is very far and it's better than M anyway

In my year I think it was only us and another group known by staircase names. We've retained ours, I don't know about the others. It probably helps that most of us are staying for fourth year, there were only 4 people leaving out of 11

Ohhh, I want to go back nowwwww Three and a half more weeks...

Really, we have lots of groups known by staircase, but I'm not sure U is one of them. V, M, M2, QR (Q and R together), T, and more!

How competitive is Law in Emmanuel in regards to other colleges such as Trinity?

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I was in U when I was in first year, my group of friends is still known as U staircase it's a really nice room, a grade 4 so pretty big with a partition so you can have half as a study and half as a bedroom. Ground floor (obviously) with a view of the side of the library. It's also directly opposite the bar, so look forward to that all in all, great choice!

Either way, as a ground floor room you'll have to get out and about the staircase to meet people, everyone else will walk right past you and up the stairs on the first few days, so be sure to be conspicuous. Ground floor rooms are great once you get to know everyone because they will stop by on the way upstairs, but during Fresher's week you need to work to get noticed.

Also, people outside can see in, so don't forget to close the curtains.

Excellent, it should be a great room - are there only 2 rooms on the ground floor? Or how many rooms are there?

Either way, as a ground floor room you'll have to get out and about the staircase to meet people, everyone else will walk right past you and up the stairs on the first few days, so be sure to be conspicuous. Ground floor rooms are great once you get to know everyone because they will stop by on the way upstairs, but during Fresher's week you need to work to get noticed.

Got mine through: V1 South Anybody know what this one is like?

Also really nice! Another ground floor one obviously, and right at the end of the corridor in South Court so potentially a bit quieter. My boyfriend was in V2 in first year and I loved his room, V1 is (I think - although Mr Z may correct me) basically the same. Another grade 4 with a partition so you can shut off about a third of the room. My boyfriend had a view of a skip in first year, but the library work is all done now so you should just have a lovely view of people going to and from there One of the big advantages to that room, imo, is that the ground floor shower in V is REALLY nice (well, comparatively).

Thanks for the good advice! Ground floor rooms sounds great as long as I know everyone in the staircase.

You know me! U11

Ah sounds excellent and any comparative shower improvement can only be good. Also, wondering if you can clear something up: the freshers' pack says no kettles in rooms, the one online says they're ok, and both have been bandied about on the facebook group. Is it bedder dependent or something like that?

Got mine through: V1 South Anybody know what this one is like? Thanks for this:



Mr Z, will bear it in mind.

Hello! Chris' old room! Ah, good memories. Everyone always gathered in that room. A lot of banter started there, so take anything a second year tells you regarding it with a heavy dose of salt, most likely an in-joke than truthful.

Experience there has taught that friendship can be bought through offering Tea.

Zoe is right, just like V2, but a mirror image, and other details are correct too. Further from the bar (10 second walk rather than 5 second) means fewer drunk people manage to stagger that far after bar extension, and the music is only faint even when at its loudest.

Also, has the best gyp room on the staircase because it's the only one with a combi-oven instead of just a microwave. (It's not a real oven, it's a microwave with some oven-imitation abilities, but it is capable of roasting!)

Recommend you also get a George Foreman grill and toaster in there, and you can do some decent cooking.






Regarding kettles in rooms - it's a rule no one ever stuck to nor ever will. Also, the bedder, Rosie, is LOVELY, and will completely ignore any rule breaking!

All sounds sublime. I look forward to the second year banter... Regarding tea, I hate tea, but I plan to go for playing some inoffensive yet decent music that people will notice. As well as just existing, which I feel might work quite well too...

All sounds sublime. I look forward to the second year banter... Regarding tea, I hate tea, but I plan to go for playing some inoffensive yet decent music that people will notice. As well as just existing, which I feel might work quite well too...

That won't last. I also hated tea when I started; now I have a tea collection that takes up an entire shelf and a cast iron loose leaf teapot. Cambridge does things to you.