The Cambridge Chat Thread

I've been up for an hour and my lecture isn't even until 11 :O.
My room is full of family eating breakfast and putting on makeup though... My aunt and I hitched a punt ride to Darwin last night :P.

My initials were R.C. but I know what you mean about the faculty. I saw someone who looked really like you yesterday and stared at her but I realised it wouldn't be you in the Mary Allen building.

It's a bit of a shambles really, how do we know who's in bed and who's in a lecture (2 very similar states of mind). We took ages to get out, if the building had been on fire it wouldn't have been successful

Also, how do you sleep through a fire drill?!

Ah, we had our fire drill at 6 this morning... it was definitely a drill, we had our Head Porter and his colleagues going round checking everybody had come out of their room. Luckily everyone in my staircase came out pretty quickly so we could go back inside rather than having to stand in the rain waiting.

It's pretty easy to sleep through a fire alarm... last year we didn't have a drill as it got actually set off in the middle of the night about two weeks in, I think the alarm sounder outside my room wasn't working properly, this scared me slightly.

The college staff seem to get pleasure out of seeing us dragged out of bed so early. In my second year the alarm was at 6, as we stood outside getting cold we had thrust into our hands flyers advertising the new (earlier-opening!) breakfast service in the canteen.

Get Open Office, as it is a free legal version of Office 2007. Just google it

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Anyway, the real reason I quoted you, COD CHEEKS?!? How does that even work?

Oh, yeah, & I'm v. jealous of your fantastically Cambridge dinner... our scholars' dinner is combined with the matriculation dinner, which I was also invited to as a JCR member. 'Twas a piece of not-terribly-appetizing chicken if I remember correctly :/ *sigh*

But what amazing, utter relief. 15 hours of nervewracking cruising with a dodgy propshaft, and boat is safely at the botyard being fixed. We are at my mum's house, chilling out and contemplating a delcious breakfast.

My initials were R.C. but I know what you mean about the faculty. I saw someone who looked really like you yesterday and stared at her but I realised it wouldn't be you in the Mary Allen building.

Oh and the ''so basic'' thing I can understand too. I know we're only first years but I'm sure we don't need a 2 hour introduction to every discipline in the way they introduce it. I'm only glad I got my essay finished instead of going to the lecture last week as everyone waited for 30 minutes and no lecturer showed up. We got an email an hour later from someone saying ''I've just been in contact with him and he's ill, he couldn't contact us''.

Thanks for all the technical suggestions everyone I used open office on a friend's computer once, and didn't like it, but I have no idea whether or not they had the latest version of it. At least I'll find out today how long my laptop is likely to be gone for.

Well I entered the Mary Allen Building at about 2:30, left it at around 4:05, and went to the ladies half way through. So it probably was

Just missed a supervision

ust read about 20 pages catching up! Sorry to miss Clare Open mic, but we were moored at Denver waiting for the early morning tide to take us onto the fens and to the boatyard

But what amazing, utter relief. 15 hours of nervewracking cruising with a dodgy propshaft, and boat is safely at the botyard being fixed. We are at my mum's house, chilling out and contemplating a delcious breakfast.

Tomorrow we are hopefully going to sea, on my dad's trimaran! Yay!
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We just had a fire drill. Well it wasn't a drill as such, something had set it off. Loads of people were still in their pyjamas

^Nice one. We had a fire drill, and I slept through it

Ah, we had our fire drill at 6 this morning... it was definitely a drill, we had our Head Porter and his colleagues going round checking everybody had come out of their room.