Christ's College (Cambridge) Students and Applicants

I must say my musical abilities (or for that matter, lack thereof) would mean that taking music as an A-level would have been positively tragic Which instrument did you play for it (just going off what the people at my school did, I think they specialised in one instrument).

From what I know, the pressure on Imperial students is quite immense compared to their support. I think the pressure on us as Cambridge students might be a bit more, but we get a lot of support. Ah, I see Imperial are taking one step closer towards becoming synonymous with Oxbridge. I think it'll benefit the students though, which is never a bad thing

I stayed in London for two nights and just couldn't wait to leave. Interesting how the city polarises opinions.

I have youtubed him with stephen frym I saw the 'what's your name?' sketch. I thought it was brilliant

Yeah, the distances in London are pretty big as well. It can take 45 minutes to get to lectures from some accommodation. It's funny that people ask me how I will get around Cambridge (only 20 mins to lectures, less for you and other scientists), when it would actually be more difficult to get around London.

I would have liked to live in London though, because there is so much to do, and so much to eat! Birmingham is excellent for restaurants, particularly Indian, but London is meant to be on another level (e.g. an authentic South Indian restaurant has only recently opened up in Birmingham, but there have been a few in London, including some big chains from India for years). I think that it will be worth living there once I start earning (eventually!), as a higher salary (London bonus) will help to compensate for higher living costs. Although I will have to learn to deal with the congestion.

I would slightly disagree with you on your point about econ being the new medicine- I've found that for the students it is, but the parents will still see medicine as the holy grail .

The reason why economics is linked with IB is because a lot of economics students tend to want to go into IB, having picked econ because they think it is best for the industry, which isn't true. It is more correlation than a causal link between economics graduates and placements in IB. Numerate degrees are preferred, but this can be anything from economics to engineering to chemistry. Even then, it doesn't matter for Sales&Trading, where you will probably see English Lit, History and language grads. What they do care about is the institution you have attended with target unis being LSE, Oxbridge, Imperial and certain courses at UCL and Warwick.
I'm going on holiday btw, so if I don't reply that's why.

Thinking of applying for Christ's, can anyone tell me the chances of getting an en-suite room in my first year? Also how is the night life, I read something about Christs bar closing earlier than others? Thanks!

En-suite: fairly good chance. I'd say roughly half the year will have en-suite (about 50 in the Typewriter, a few in Staircase 4, a few in Z Annexe)

Nightlife: The rumour about the bar is just that: a rumour. The bar keeps pub hours (during term) and actually has quite cheap drinks. As the college is in the centre of town, it makes club access easy - Life is opposite Z staircase, Cindies is about a minute's walk away. Kambar, Fez and Soul Tree (Is it still Soul tree?) are close by. There are 2 coded entrances to Christ's and a 24 hour Porter's Lodge so getting back in is also easy.

En-suite: fairly good chance. I'd say roughly half the year will have en-suite (about 50 in the Typewriter, a few in Staircase 4, a few in Z Annexe)

Nightlife: The rumour about the bar is just that: a rumour. The bar keeps pub hours (during term) and actually has quite cheap drinks. As the college is in the centre of town, it makes club access easy - Life is opposite Z staircase, Cindies is about a minute's walk away. Kambar, Fez and Soul Tree (Is it still Soul tree?) are close by. There are 2 coded entrances to Christ's and a 24 hour Porter's Lodge so getting back in is also easy.

Thinking of applying for Christ's, can anyone tell me the chances of getting an en-suite room in my first year?
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As a Fresher from this October I can tell you a little bit about how they allocate rooms in the first year.

The rooms are divided by rent band and the higher rent bands have the ensuites.
You don't get much choice as to where in the college you want to stay but you CAN choose a rent band that suits your budget and whether you want ensuite or not.

You have the option of stating whether you want an ensuite room or not in that particular rent band - so if ensuite was important to you, you are almost be guarenteed it in first year

Does Christs still give EE offers or is that a thing of the past? Would be awesome to get an offer like that!

Yep, but if you get a first in years 1 and 2, you don't have to interview, you get an automatic place (at Cambridge anyway, I'm not sure if the same applies if I chose to apply elsewhere). I have no idea how I got through the first interview though! So I'm sure how that's supposed to help me

Also, I saw a comment you made to kpatb about lectures only being 20 mins away. Apparently lectures for medics are a 5/10 minute walk, which is nice.

Agreed... everyone is saying "so are how are you getting around Cambridge" and the fact is that as far as I know, everything except for the Cavendish is so close by to Christ's! So I would be able to walk to most places within 20 minutes or something :P



If you want Indian food, we can do an Indian cook up every couple of weeks or something It'd be awesome
The two south indian restaurants that i've been to in London were okay but a bit pricey though.

You'll get used to the congestion, and make sure you try to avoid peak times when socialising.

London may possibly be an excellent place to work as a graduate (particularly for an Economics graduate) but not for a student unless you have stashes of money, me thinks.


No! Really?
Well a lot of my desi friends here are doing Economics and all the Indian parents are going "Wowww he's studying Economics at Wharton/Cambridge/Other Institution His parents must be so proud!"



ooo okay. One of my friends was telling me how she did an internship over easter for RBS in Investment Banking at some of the students there did unrelated degrees like Engineering and I couldn't quite believe it.
Interesting!

Have a good holiday

Actually, Girtonians usually have to come into Cambridge if they want to play sports against other colleges. Christ's have pitches not that far from college, and no further away than many other colleges. It's hardly bad in that regard.

Not as far as I'm aware.

Ok, you will now better than me as a current student. I'm probably going to be playing badminton anyway, so I won't have to go out that far either way unless I visit Girton college.

Badminton is in Kelsey Kerridge. We usually meet in the Plodge 10 mins beforehand to wander over (if the men's captain isn't going to do this, I'm darn well hijacking the list and suggesting it anyway! I get lonely walking on my own )

Ok thanks for the info, although I currently can't make sense of it . Just to warn you, I'm only a casual player- it's very unlikely I will be playing for any teams.

Is this a bad time to say I want to study Law at Christ's, I'm female and play badminton but definitely not competitively? ^^ I'm quite scared

Men's teams don't bother me - If you were female, I might have a different reaction Ha ha, no worries. Most players are casual. That being said, for Men's Seconds, I'm pretty sure all you need to do is say you can play a match: it's open policy so if you ever feel like doing it, you can just tell the captain (and if you DO know any girls who want to play badminton, send 'em my way!)