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err, trinity, if i had to pick one, though it has bad points (namely size (and a crap bar)).
my personal favourites are caius, sidney, emma, jesus. but you didn't list them.
[obligatory]but all colleges are great, you'll love wherever you go, we can't make the decision for you...[/obligatory]
my personal favourites are caius, sidney, emma, jesus. but you didn't list them.
[obligatory]but all colleges are great, you'll love wherever you go, we can't make the decision for you...[/obligatory]
Have you looked at the alternative prospectus descriptions?
I like Downing and chose it because I'd narrowed down to Emma and Downing using the alternative prospectus but my best friend and girlfriend are at Emma, so I chose to go for Downing.
I like Downing and chose it because I'd narrowed down to Emma and Downing using the alternative prospectus but my best friend and girlfriend are at Emma, so I chose to go for Downing.
If you put me on the spot out of those I'd say Pembroke. But you're missing by far and away the most awesomest college ever...
Um, any, really. Maybe Clare. Or Trinity. Or just anything.
If your college don't believe in most awesomest, then they can't be most awesomest. They can be brilliant, quintessential, corpulent...but never most awesomest
I couldn't even remotely give you directions to Downing or Pembroke if you put a gun to my head, so they're out for being completely nondescript. I find it difficult to have a conversation with 90% of the people at Trinity while drunk without immediately mimicking their accent, so I'd last about four hours there. King's and Clare are alright, I applied to Clare (though got pooled). King's is probably a bit too touristy and a bit too alternative for me, I quite like dressing up in gowns and stuff - if you're gonna go to Cambridge, you may as well revel in it.
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I couldn't even remotely give you directions to Downing or Pembroke if you put a gun to my head, so they're out for being completely nondescript. I find it difficult to have a conversation with 90% of the people at Trinity while drunk without immediately mimicking their accent, so I'd last about four hours there. King's and Clare are alright, I applied to Clare (though got pooled). King's is probably a bit too touristy and a bit too alternative for me, I quite like dressing up in gowns and stuff - if you're gonna go to Cambridge, you may as well revel in it.
I agree somewhat. When else in your life will you be able to stroll around in sub fusc (unless you become an academic)? What is this accent you speak of?
jammy21
Other than your own college, which of these do you rate most highly? Please feel free to give your reasons.
Clare
Downing
King's
Pembroke
Trinity
Clare
Downing
King's
Pembroke
Trinity
Out of those, I think Downing or Pembroke. Pembroke is aesthetically gorgeous, Downing has a good formal and lots of open space, and backs right onto the new museums site (so great for medics, geographers, bio natscis)
Trinity is lovely, but very very grand. Terrible formal, mediocre bar, but they do have an awesome mayball!
Kings = far too touristy, and full of students cutting through to get to the sidgwick site. Having said that, they have a lot of really good ents, they use their bar etc very well.
Clare - awesome bar. Only disadvantage is that 2nd years (and some 3rd yrs) are housed way away from college, up the hill. But Mem court does back onto the UL
I'm at King's so I'd say that...but apart from that...Trinity. Just because of how it looks. I don't think I'd fit in there though. Clare or Downing possibly, again based on how they look. Clare also has a good bar.
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