The Cambridge Chat Thread

K.T.

CUSU did try. :frown:

Edit: Oh God, I have to accompany a Tutor giving an admissions talk. First, I hate public speaking (someone come and hold my hand?!), and second, it's horribly reminiscent of when I myself came on the Arts open day three years ago, and saw James speaking. I'm OLD. :frown:

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FadeToBlackout

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Lidka

CUSU did try. :frown:

Edit: Oh God, I have to accompany a Tutor giving an admissions talk. First, I hate public speaking (someone come and hold my hand?!), and second, it's horribly reminiscent of when I myself came on the Arts open day three years ago, and saw James speaking. I'm OLD. :frown:

I'm sure you'll do a better job than I did.

Standing up in front of all the little applicants, and saying that sometimes I did as little as four hours of work a week, was worth it to see the look of horror on the senior tutor's face, though!

I challenge you to do the same.....

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Lidka

FadeToBlackout

I'm sure you'll do a better job than I did.

Standing up in front of all the little applicants, and saying that sometimes I did as little as four hours of work a week, was worth it to see the look of horror on the senior tutor's face, though!

I challenge you to do the same.....

Your talk was good! I don't know whether I might be compromising my UCS position by saying that, though. "Hi, I'm the Academic Affairs Officer for Clare JCR... some weeks I do 4 hours' work, but that's fine, really... " (Note: I neither confirm nor deny that some weeks I may do 4 hours of work :p:

).

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FadeToBlackout

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Lidka

Your talk was good!

I can't remember what I said now.

*creaks off back to the triassic period* :p:

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OP

FadeToBlackout

..saying that sometimes I did as little as four hours of work a week, was worth it to see the look of horror on the senior tutor's face, though!

Lol! I first read that as 'four hours a day' and I was kind of nodding to myself, going 'ok, he shouldn't be that horrified, but that is a bit minimal' :rofl:

FadeToBlackout

*creaks off back to the triassic period* :p:

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Zoedotdot

18

K.T.

Argh, I've only just noticed the class list thread :frown:

At least next year I can keep my grades to myself...

Sorry

If it's any consolation, I won't be going near the class lists for any subject but my own next year and won't be taking any pictures or anything.

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OP

I've been taking pictures, but I haven't really looked at anything :p:

MML was too long and complicated, so I didn't bother. Apart from that I looked at one or two with people I know, but tired of it pretty soon.

My best (SPS) friend who got a 2.2 just got an email from her DoS telling her that the Chair of the Part II Examining Board wrote to tell him that they mixed up one of her papers with someone else's and she actually got a 2.1 :biggrin:

How bad is that, though. She was in mourning!!!

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FadeToBlackout

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Craghyrax

I've been taking pictures, but I haven't really looked at anything

MML was too long and complicated, so I didn't bother. Apart from that I looked at one or two with people I know, but tired of it pretty soon.

My best (SPS) friend who got a 2.2 just got an email from her DoS telling her that the Chair of the Part II Examining Board wrote to tell him that they mixed up one of her papers with someone else's and she actually got a 2.1 :biggrin:

How bad is that, though. She was in mourning!!!

Imagine how the other person might feel. "You've got a 2.1... no, wait..."

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generalebriety

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Right. This house is intolerable. I'm ******* off to London for a bit.

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Scipio90

generalebriety

Right. This house is intolerable. I'm ******* off to London for a bit.

The novelty of being home has worn off on me now. Cambridge is so much more interesting.

Athena

Got my 2.i, so I'll be in Cambridge in October :smile:

Yay, well done :smile:

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OP

Athena

Got my 2.i, so I'll be in Cambridge in October :smile:

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Mustardseed

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FadeToBlackout

Imagine how the other person might feel. "You've got a 2.1... no, wait..."

I'm terrified of this happening. :s-smilie:

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OP

Gnargh!

My room is overlooking a beautiful back garden and its on the ground floor. Unfortunately there's a barbecue directly in front of the window, and a certain group in the house have taken to inviting over loads of friends each night to BBQ and socialise outside my window every single night :dry:

They haven't been too noisy, in fairness, and they seem to be breaking up at 11-12ish, so not interfering with sleep. But its still frustrating because I can hear literally every word in my room and can't close the window 'cos its too hot, and have the BBQ smoke coming in, and also - basically an audience looking into my room and me for several hours until it becomes dark enough for me to close the curtains!
I'm just wondering how many consecutive nights of this I should leave until I ask them to put their chairs on the other side of the garden (which is huge) :sigh:

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Scipio90

Craghyrax

Gnargh!

My room is overlooking a beautiful back garden and its on the ground floor. Unfortunately there's a barbecue directly in front of the window, and a certain group in the house have taken to inviting over loads of friends each night to BBQ and socialise outside my window every single night :dry:

They haven't been too noisy, in fairness, and they seem to be breaking up at 11-12ish, so not interfering with sleep. But its still frustrating because I can hear literally every word in my room and can't close the window 'cos its too hot, and have the BBQ smoke coming in, and also - basically an audience looking into my room and me for several hours until it becomes dark enough for me to close the curtains!
I'm just wondering how many consecutive nights of this I should leave until I ask them to put their chairs on the other side of the garden (which is huge) :sigh:

If it's just a matter of moving to the other side of the garden, you may as well just ask tomorrow, it's not like they'll be inconvenienced, surely?

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OP

Scipio90

If it's just a matter of moving to the other side of the garden, you may as well just ask tomorrow, it's not like they'll be inconvenienced, surely?

Yeh I hope so. Just don't want to put them out too much as I'm living with some of them until September :s-smilie:

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OP

Blegh - I also hate finding flights :o:

Yes I know - poor me, I have to go to South Africa :p:

...but yeh, hunting for the cheapest flights is a real pain. Also I think this time will probably be the first time I travel via somewhere like Dubai or Egypt, which is going to truly suck as the journey will be 16hrs plus rather than 11 :sigh:

However the social has stopped :smile:

Peace and Quiet :biggrin:

I think they're all engineers with lab projects and placements and stuff.

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Catsmeat

Craghyrax

Blegh - I also hate finding flights :o:

Yes I know - poor me, I have to go to South Africa :p:

...but yeh, hunting for the cheapest flights is a real pain. Also I think this time will probably be the first time I travel via somewhere like Dubai or Egypt, which is going to truly suck as the journey will be 16hrs plus rather than 11 :sigh:

If it helps, if you are flying with Ryanair and pay with electron you get to waiver the £50 booking fee ... I have the pain of booking flights to Turkey (Istanbul), and then of getting to Ankara (and, eventually, Konya) by sleeper train. At least my research visa has been finalized.

Nothing can be worse, however, than attempting to understand the US graduate admissions system, nor facing the realization that I'll have to sit the GRE admissions test in November. Gah.

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Apagg

Craghyrax

Blegh - I also hate finding flights :o:

Yes I know - poor me, I have to go to South Africa :p:

...but yeh, hunting for the cheapest flights is a real pain. Also I think this time will probably be the first time I travel via somewhere like Dubai or Egypt, which is going to truly suck as the journey will be 16hrs plus rather than 11 :sigh:

However the social has stopped :smile:

Peace and Quiet :biggrin:

I think they're all engineers with lab projects and placements and stuff.

What's your current process? I'd have thought it'd just be a matter of using one or two comparison sites like Expedia?

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OP

Catsmeat

If it helps, if you are flying with Ryanair and pay with electron you get to waiver the £50 booking fee ... I have the pain of booking flights to Turkey (Istanbul), and then of getting to Ankara (and, eventually, Konya) by sleeper train. At least my research visa has been finalized.

I'm pretty sure Ryanair don't do long-haul flights like SA, but thanks that could be useful to know in the future.

Catsmeat

Nothing can be worse, however, than attempting to understand the US graduate admissions system, nor facing the realization that I'll have to sit the GRE admissions test in November. Gah.

I don't like America very much, so I'm spared this particular evil. Nonetheless a quick scan through the Cambridge postgrad application thread in the Postgrad forum hinted that applying for an MPhil here is likely to be a bit of a slog! :p:

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OP