Cambridge Medicine Students and Applicants

Woooo!! This is definitely worth while

Your plan could backfire/you could lose your first member if any of us don't get the grades haha, just a prewarning :P

Your plan could backfire/you could lose your first member if any of us don't get the grades haha, just a prewarning :P

Hey, let's try and be optimistic .

Pessimism! Believe in yourself (and us )

Haha sorry! I'm confident that you two will match and beat your offers, it's me I'm worried about having said that, if I do get the grades, I'll be happy to help start the colouring society with you two, give everyone a free anatomy colouring book to go with the colouring pencils

Thanks! Oh haha I wish! If only we lived up to the reputation ! What college are you from?

I definitely agree with the part about supervision notes, the lectures can sometimes ramble on for a little too long, and your supervisor just summarises it so nicely (as well as adding interesting new facts)!

I think next term I'm just not going make notes! They were the same as the hand outs and wasted so much time! :O

I totally know where you're coming from! Before I got my offer I was like "hmm getting A*AA should be okay", now I've got my offer I'm like "OMG I'm never going to get A*AA"! But for now I will just carry on talking about Cambridge optimistically and hope that it becomes a reality!

I'm not sure we'll be able to stretch to colouring books, but definitely colouring pencils and sharpeners .

Yeah, and to be honest it's not even the A* that seems far out of reach, it's the whole thing, I feel like no matter how much I do I won't get the grades

But yes, being optimistic, I'll buy an anatomy colouring book anyway... Don't you worry that once you get to cambridge the workload will be too much to handle? I do

Yeah me too! I reckon I should be able to get As though because of my AS UMS .

Good they're totally worth the money, I'm staring at mine now wishing I was doing that rather than trig :/.

Yes I am worrying about that, but surely they wouldn't have given us offers if they didn't think we would cope? Plus when I get there I won't have all my volunteering commitments or my job that takes up my entire weekend :P.

LOL yeah I think so too maybe, I am fully capable of getting the grades but ill doubt it even with my UMS for AS

But trig is amazing! (I'm a top maths nerd for a medic haha) nothing beats colouring though...

True! And we can always help each other with the work if need be :P I haven't actually asked yet, which college? Trinity here!

Ohh gosh me and trig do not get on at all! Been doing trig all night :/. Hahaha I am so glad you don't think trig beats colouring .

Exactly! Everyone will be in the same position! Christ's . Oooh wow you must be insanely clever then if you got into Trinity! Well done you! Now stop doubting yourself .

It's that bad? Yeesh good luck. :/

No no definitely not, they always accept one fool on the course, just to even it out a bit (that fool being me ).

Also, I love how most colleges are in walking distance from each other - I think Christ's is about 2 minutes away so I'll be seeing ya! (exams permitting)

I'm from St Catharine's. This might seem an odd question, but do you really have six science supervisions a week?

I have become a bit wary about writing notes - I don't always find it productive to do so, as it can easily become an exercise in copying down the lecture handouts, as you say.

For anatomy in particular, I sit with bones and try to actively learn the material (and devise mnemonics) rather than drawing pictures. Too much of what I did in Michaelmas was not contributing to the learning process.

Also, flashcards! And in HOM, concepts! Same goes for MIMS (e.g cataplerosis and why it necessitates anaplerosis).

Oh don't be silly, they must like you! I know what you mean though, I still wonder if they've got me mixed up with someone else!

Yes it's so good - picked a nice central college! Yes exams permitting! Woo, soo excited .

OMG this is going to sounds so stalkerish, but I remember you from Vazzyb`s thread (I think it was you) when I just got my offer a year ago :O! How time flies !

Congratulations!!!

Accomodation varies so much but excluding that I'd say the basic student loan (the one you get if you put in no details about parents income) should cover it without you being hard up at any point. Most colleges will help with books and there's not that many that you really need, you can borrow them from a library.

Slightly off topic here but after getting pooled I have just received an offer to study medicine at Girton college. Now that I have an offer I'm beginning to think if student finance and was wondering would any Cambridge medical student roughly tell me about the total price it takes to live per year, including books, social life fees..... Just an estimate

thankyou !

What do you mean by no details? Can you get more by doing that as I'm the third kid in my family to go to uni so a larger loan would be helpful to say the least!


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What do you mean by no details? Can you get more by doing that as I'm the third kid in my family to go to uni so a larger loan would be helpful to say the least!


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