Cambridge or Oxford for English?

My first year:
Term 1 - 9 weeks
Term 2 - 9 weeks
Term 3 - 10 weeks

You see, there are 8 weeks but we also have "week nought" and "week nine". A con, a con I tell you.

No, for me. I'm afraid St. John's will use all of the first year accommodation for conferences. When I stayed there for the interview I got this cute little set of shampoos and similar, with the college crest on them. Something tells me that those are not produced simply for the comfort and convenience of the candidates, so I think they're going for conference-cash in a big way!

I stayed over at churchill when I went to look around cambridge, not only did I get soap, and shampoo in pwetty little bottles but I got a free plastic cup too. Yes! A free plastic cup.

I got a cup, shoe shine and tea making set complete with new hall serviette and that little doilie thing between the cup and saucer. WOo!

As an aside, I was trying to think of people who use this forum doing English. I can't think of anyone apart from F. Poste. Which is weird, considering that English is a huge subject and, as Baz keeps telling us, they have loads of time on their hands. Medics, on the other hand, who should be worked to the bone, seem to find plenty of time to spend here.

*floats around aimlessly with a book, training for being an English student*

have you got the obligatory cheap wine bottle too..?

I got a cup, shoe shine and tea making set complete with new hall serviette and that little doilie thing between the cup and saucer. WOo!

We've finally uncovered the reason for the ratio of applicants to places at Oxbridge colleges.

Which college was that? I ovbiously picked the wrong one to stay in!

I got a cup, shoe shine and tea making set complete with new hall serviette and that little doilie thing between the cup and saucer. WOo!

My academic terms have been 8.5/8.5/9, 8.5/8.5/8.5 and 8.5/8.5/7. But my actual term (time spent in/with Oxford) has been 15/12/9.5, 15/10/9.5 and 14/8.5/9.5.

15 due to OUBC training? Friend of mine has about 4 weeks off this summer, rowing at the JWC till end of July, then OUBC from Sept. 1st. Crazy rowers.

Yeah. Training starts on the 1st September, term starts about 6 week later in the middle of October. And for junior internationals coming it's a very short summer term, I had 30 days holiday before I came here - and that included results day and the having to do the summer fitness program.

Wow, you were an international.
(You better have no mates or I'm going to officially classify you as one of those irritating people who's just too damn talented for everyone else to bare).

And most of the serious trialists have either rowed at their school for 5 years or got an international vest; it was a bit of a shock when I first came here and realised I wasn't really anything special.

I first realised this when I heard that my mate, who is comfortably top of GB on his side, had accepted that his chances of Blue Boat selection next year were pretty slim. Another friend of mine, who is 5' 7" and weighs 65 kg's on a good day, intends on trialling for OULBC. Should be interesting to see how he gets on.