Prettiest Cambridge College

I feel its my duty to defend Emmanuel College since no one else is doing it.
Emma is THE nicest college in cambridge and oxford combined, i mean we have ducks.
We also have the highest marks.
So lets all stop argueing and just agree with me

this is the first time i ve seen someone compliment other people's collges

is any one here going to do medicine (hopefully in Emma)?
and is anyone else deferred

I thought St Johns was really ugly. Clare was nice I spose but it was too small and there wasnt enough little nooks around. Pembroke was beautiful though, and yeah Emma was pretty nice too.

You're applying to Caius, so obviously you like stone rather than the red brick of Johns :P I do think that buildings made of stone are gorgeous, but then if you just wanted yellow stone, you could just go to Oxford. Yellow stone does have a certain uplifting quality about it, but the brick buildings of Cambridge have had much more impact on university buildings around the world.

I think Johns is gorgeous, not necessarily because of the quality of the individual buildings but because of 'the whole picture'. It has brick buildings, it has stone buildings, it has gorgeous gardens like Clare, its situated in The Backs, it's got the Bridge of Sighs and its just got so many little nooks and surprising twists and turns. Trinity's huge, but is a lot more ordered. Personally, I don't find this as exciting as Johns.

Well maybe, I agree that New Court is really attractive, but I think its more that the courts at the front of St Johns are just so empty, no trees or foliage etc. The Bridge of Sighs is really nice I agree, but its still not enough - and it doesnt have a pretty library Exciting, interesting perhaps but not pretty in any traditional sense

I agree with you about the foliage, it really makes a difference as we can see by the number of people that voted for Clare