The Cambridge Chat Thread

You know how I asked for suggestions about edible gifts to bring home for family/friends at the weekend, and Craggy/others suggested Fitzbillies?

Yeah, well, I'm now sitting in my room writing an essay with 8 chelsea buns just sitting there. This is absolute TORTURE. RELIEVE ME OF THIS PAIN!!1!

He's a really sound and genuinely nice guy. He was a helper with our Geography Sutton Trust visit last year, and he made the whole thing that bit better. I was really chuffed when he recognised my face at Downing's freshers fair. Really happy to see him as CUSU President.

Does anyone know if they have plug sockets in normal class on East Coast Mainline trains? I think it might be only business class that does...

I should not have inverted my day-night cycle.

You could take that very far and suggest, for instance, that no student should make any noise whatsoever in their room as it may in some way detriment the experience of their neighbours to a very small degree. The majority of decisions in a college will result in some people losing out.

I'm so fed up with the unsocial student lot in Cambridge. No one wants to go out and party, totally depressing.

I have a dictaphone you could borrow if you like...?

I'm so fed up with the unsocial student lot in Cambridge. No one wants to go out and party, totally depressing.

Should have gone to Harvard, they work hard and play hard.

Here students work hard and work hard and are boring.

apart from ryder & amies, does anyone know where else one may be able to bulk-order society hoodies?

Looking for ward to the fireworks tonight though! Anyone going? The Duck is going to be moored just down from the Fort St George, if anyone wants to pop by!

Sure was. First night I could actually be bothered waiting in the queue so I am not sure how cheesy it normally is, but still a good night. I noticed a lot of the drinking societies were out last night also

I'm so fed up with the unsocial student lot in Cambridge. No one wants to go out and party, totally depressing.

Bold is why that argument isn't valid. We aren't talking about people being midly inconvenienced by this, we are talking about some people, even if it is a small minority, being very badly affected by it.

The principal is the same, only the magnitude differs.

What time is it? I have a badminton match at St Luke's Barn at 9pm.

I don't, is that a problem?

I wonder if anyone can help? I need to look at an article on JSTOR for work (and James needs to have a look at some things for his interview), but as neither of us are technically part of the university anymore we can't get access. Any ideas how we can get in? Perhaps we could borrow someone's account for a few days?

So if some people react negatively to it and some people react well to it that makes it acceptable? I'd say that the fact that some people react negatively to it should mean that it shouldn't be used, even if overall more people react well than badly (which is debateable). Humans aren't numbers, you can'tdeal with averages. It may be good for the majority, but being unpleasant for the minority isn't acceptable.

I've been trying to think about how it might work, in terms of legality and in terms of practicality. I also don't have a recording device.

In other news we are affiliate to CUSU still in an unanimous vote I was actually very impressed with Tom Chigbo, he came across extremely well defending his position.

The email above was also raised and it's going to be taken up with Dr P and also with CUSU.

I received one just this evening (after having spent the whole day away at an open day in Oxford) and it just knocked the wind out of my sails. I feel like a naughty schoolboy, having received a 2.2 along with 40% of other students taking MVST 1B. I discussed it with my DoS a couple of weeks ago and felt I had moved on after being very disappointed after, I had felt, working hard and having got through second year MVST here, and have already made changes to my working life to hopefully do better this year. For myself. Not for Peterhouse.

To put a student in front of what is effectively a panel of 3 senior fellows right at the end of Week 5 is just bullying. It certainly doesnt motivate me.

I dont know which college model they are trying to emulate. Being strict hasnt exactly worked for Christs this year.

yours, back after a long absence,

winj96

You could, but the point is that I'm not really taking it far... I think that anyone would agree that the above example isn't really practical, but asking for senior members of a college not to bully their students isn't really quite such a stretch

You know how I asked for suggestions about edible gifts to bring home for family/friends at the weekend, and Craggy/others suggested Fitzbillies?

Yeah, well, I'm now sitting in my room writing an essay with 8 chelsea buns just sitting there. This is absolute TORTURE. RELIEVE ME OF THIS PAIN!!1!

Grrr, the SPS Society are telling me I'm not a member when I paid for membership in Lent term last year

I'll happily take all of them off your hands at no cost to you

See I find people who want to do nothing but go out and party depressing and very very dull. There is such a massive amount of stuff to do in Cambridge that I don't understand how people can waste their time by partying. I'm busy almost every night this term and I've never been to a club in Cambridge, rarely go to the college bar and hardly ever to a pub, except if I'm sessioning there.

People are different and at Cambridge you're likely to find a greater range than at other universities.

apart from ryder & amies, does anyone know where else one may be able to bulk-order society hoodies?

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So are we getting this TSR formal booked? I would suggest one of the upper year Emma students do it because I'm worried our catering dept. might not take us freshers seriously.

Or maybe I'm just para

Now that we have the numbers, would any of you mind booking? Dunno if you had been communicating among yourselves or not. Has anybody been able to arrange the group permit thing?

I haven't spoken to catering at all before, but I suppose I could try. It would be probably helpful if you could send me a list of (real) names of guests attending.

Right.

I'm in the UL.

One hour to find the Jstor stuff I need.

Would you like me to pass on the contact details for the people who made our hoodies for The Cambridge Hub?

Am I right in thinking there is some form of public fireworks this evening? I'm fed up with comparing pictures of goats for my dissertation.