The Cambridge Chat Thread

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

*ahem*

I have two hole punchers and I've been trying to get rid of one of them for over a year May I please put it in your pigeon hole? Just PM me name and college.

Anyway, does Harrison Drive exist? It's supposed to be at Homerton, but I can't find it on Google Maps... If not, are there science labs near Homerton?

I reckon that they're also so that people don't spend ages traipsing up a staircase and through attics, only to find the person they want isn't in.

Of course, you could always set your slider to cover both, and then you're in a quantum superposition, like schroedinger's cat, until the person knocks on the door

Very random question: In German, the concept of being useful or good at loads of different things has a name, it's called the 'eierlegende Wollmilchsau', the egg-laying wool-milk-pig.

We have things at the bottom of the staircases that have a list of every room number, next to the name of the current occupant and a slider that you can move to cover either 'OUT' or 'IN' to show your current status.

1 | SMITH, J.K. | OUT [XXX]

Queens' has them, Trinity Hall has them. I don't remember seeing them in Trinity, but I suppose I assumed everywhere had them.

Very random question: In German, the concept of being useful or good at loads of different things has a name, it's called the 'eierlegende Wollmilchsau', the egg-laying wool-milk-pig. I was wondering whether there was an English equivalent for this - 'Swiss army knife' comes close, but it's a lot less interesting and colourful expression...

In other news: I'm very likely doing an all-nighter tonight. Just 3 weeks into term .

Just written a fairly terrible essay and now have to type it up. It's still conclusionless though and the latter half is much shoddier than the first - I'll give my supervisor ten guesses as to what time I wrote it at Still, doing better than last year - I'll actually finish this essay BEFORE the deadline which is a definite achievement.

And you got a first last year... there's hope for me yet! Gosh, I want to sleep I'm not even home yet!

And you got a first last year...

Would you like me to bring some chocolate or cake down?
edit: I even have bananas and oranges now, thinking about it.

It's quite good, isn't it? I like it very much .

Thanks for the translations by the way.

In other news: I'm very likely doing an all-nighter tonight. Just 3 weeks into term .

Anyway, does Harrison Drive exist? It's supposed to be at Homerton, but I can't find it on Google Maps... If not, are there science labs near Homerton?

'Jack-of-all-trades'

It might be because I missed my lecture yesterday

Well not really, as that is a negative thing, whereas Y__ was talking about somebody being good at lots of things. Jack of all trades means that you are barely competent at lots of things (i.e. me).