The Classics College?

Clare is very fluffy, and happy, and huggy, and claustrophobic, and passive-aggressive (possibly projecting). I know people driven half-mad by the togetherness of it all; and others who couldn't cope anywhere else, especially at a big scary college like John's or Trinity.

If you need friendship thrust upon you, then Clare is the way to go.

Yes, although if you're scatterbrained like me you'll end up with lots of fines. Of course because of the short lending period, requests are more of a problem (especially if everyone on your course needs the same books). Selwyn also seems to have a fairly good collection of Classics books.

Christ - I wonder why they let me in, being loud, abrasive, over-confident, cynical, bad tempered and generally Scottish (i.e. emotion is for sissies, don't touch me, you freak)?

Don't think we've ever demonstrated that level of camaraderie, have we?

Clare is very fluffy, and happy, and huggy, and claustrophobic, and passive-aggressive (possibly projecting). I know people driven half-mad by the togetherness of it all; and others who couldn't cope anywhere else, especially at a big scary college like John's or Trinity.

If you need friendship thrust upon you, then Clare is the way to go.

Yep, and we love it that way! We're not lovey dovey or anything like that, but other people have commented on quite how close it is. I enjoy it, though I'd probably be happy elsewhere, I would come here again!

Puppy, why do you say it's crap?

For the reasons already stated. Plus it sent my friend mad! I really liked it when I first visited there but I just feel like it doesn't have anything particular to offer- average size, not sporty, not renowed for much (correct me if I'm wrong on any of those counts) Obviously it's my own personal opinion but I really don't think I could live there.

Apparently we have 17/18 people who are grade 8 or above on the flute

Just wondering if we could get back to the topic....

IMO, the most important factor in choosing a College for Classics is the College library provision. It doesn't matter how many Classics fellows your College has, as you'll just be sent to relevant tutors at other Colleges for supervisions, and several subjects are supervised centrally through the Classics Faculty anyway eg Linguistics. Also, as Helen said, just because someone is world-renowed doesn't mean they will be a good teacher/supervisor. I have supervisions with an eminent Fellow at King's, who expresses himself so poorly, and talks in such a convoluted manner, that I have difficulty following anything he says and consequently gain nothing from his supervsions.

Your College library, however, really does matter. A good way of finding out which Colleges have the best Classics collections is to get hold of Classics reading lists from the Faculty website, going to Newton http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/public_info.html selecting the College library sections, and searching for the books. My College is in the first of the 2 sections, and from my own experience of using Newton, the College libraries which most frequently come up as having the books I need are Churchill, Clare, King's and Newnham. The Colleges in the second half of the alphabet which seem exceptionally good are Pembroke and Trinity. There is nothing more frustrating than seeing the Classics books you need sitting in other College libraries which you are unable to borrow from!

Why christs over corpus?

Johns does look good on the prospectus, however it has accumulated a somewhat negative reputation on the forums (ie. Oxford than St. johns....), but i'll still consider it

Also, as Helen said, just because someone is world-renowed doesn't mean they will be a good teacher/supervisor. I have supervisions with an eminent Fellow at King's, who expresses himself so poorly, and talks in such a convoluted manner, that I have difficulty following anything he says and consequently gain nothing from his supervsions.