Cambridge Chat (previously New Cambridge Students Entry 2004)

No, but I really don't buy the "Cambridge is better" thing... Cambridge is different and may have a better format and better lecturers, but the stabdard of work is unlikely to vary greatly between Cambridge and some other top unis like Southampton..

either way, i really do fail to see how a science degree here could possibly be considred as an easy option.

I'd do your degree or mine before I'd even consider subjecting myself to Blissy's...

A science degree (or maths) would be an easy option for me in comparison to something like English or music...

If you think otherwise, I salute you as an amazing all-rounder...

well, okay, i guess you are a super genius who finds cambridge science a piece of piss..

When did I say that (or even imply it?). If anything I was going on about how much I was unhappy with my course...

If I am to extrapolate that you would find arty subjects easier... Why didn't you do one?

so saying that these were easy from your experience. I don't think they are! and I don't think you should make out that medicine is so much harder than other science degrees at least at cambridge when you haven't done them.

He didn't say he found science easy. He said he finds science easy in comparison to a more airy fairy subject, like English.

well, he said "Maybe an easy (and more "fun") science at Cambridge like Ecology or Cytology, or go to do your medicine elsewhere!"

not easier... easy.

Oh, well I was ignoring all the science cra... stuff. This place is turning into a science zone!!

and whatever is wrong with that.

well, you said:

Maybe an easy (and more "fun") science at Cambridge like Ecology or Cytology, or go to do your medicine elsewhere!

(I dont know why it would help to do medicine elsewhere if Cambridge is just as hard as anywhere else)

so saying that these were easy from your experience. I don't think they are! and I don't think you should make out that medicine is so much harder than other science degrees at least at cambridge when you haven't done them.

I never said they were harder than arts subjects. Or anything of the sort! (part from my dig at land economy, but i dont even know anything about that, its just a stereotypical joke..)

If you would find "our" science courses easier than yours, why didn't you do one?

*feels excluded*

*feels excluded*

Unless you have a great aptitude for a variety of things from sociology and ethics to physics, biochemistry and pure biology and are ok about cutting up real people (including their faces, genitalia and brains), Cambridge medicine will be hard for you. Most people have a particular liking for particular areas of science. If you choose something you like it is only fair to assume you will find it easier.

Cambridge (and Oxford) medicine is a totally different degree to what you do at other medical schools...

I did medicine here because I had to. I had much less scope than you had. You were probably allowed to do anything. I was forced into a choice between medicine and law at Oxford or Cambridge. I would rather not go into that here (I'd be happier to in person), but I am not here through my own choice. Yes, given a free choice (and assuming I went to Cambridge), I'd be sitting down in lectures with you...

*feels excluded*

By the way... Did you do any Yeats or other Irish stuff?