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Reply 1180

thelostchild
Doesn't that kinda negate the point of parents, as there someone to ask questions of Cambridge before you go :confused:

I don't know. They arranged a couple of family events during and following Freshers' Week, at which we could ask questions I suppose.

Reply 1181

thelostchild
Doesn't that kinda negate the point of parents, as there someone to ask questions of Cambridge before you go :confused:

no.

Reply 1182

Results day. Expect hysteria. I'm ******* off to Manchester.

Reply 1183

On the subject of college parents, mine were appalling. My dad did write me a letter, bur not my mum. And then when I arrived they both failed to organise anything. The first time I met my mum (she did at least come and find me I suppose) she just told me that I'd hate my first year, that the course was dreadfully stressful and then left me to it. Nice.

My college husband and I both wrote extensive letters and I even included a CD of images of life in college with mine. I'm still in contact with one of my college sons ocasionally, but the other degraded and I lost touch.

Reply 1184

This feels like the calm before the storm- I guess we're gonna be inundated by hysteric soon-to-be-freshers soon :s-smilie:

Reply 1185

munro90
This feels like the calm before the storm- I guess we're gonna be inundated by hysteric soon-to-be-freshers soon :s-smilie:

Nah, they won't be moving over here just yet - they're thread's been renamed.

Reply 1186

Wow, I was expectıng ıt to be really busy :p:

Reply 1187

Athena
I figure they can have their own thread to squee in until they actually get here :smile:


squee?

Reply 1188

Squeal I presume.

Reply 1189

Here is the tvtropes page for squee. See you in a few hours. :p:

Reply 1190

munro90
This feels like the calm before the storm- I guess we're gonna be inundated by hysteric soon-to-be-freshers soon :s-smilie:

Like you once were I expect :p:

Reply 1191

Zhen Lin
Here is the tvtropes page for squee. See you in a few hours. :p:


I'm ın an ınternet cafe, I'm not clıckıng on that lınk :p:

Reply 1192

I presume you're ın Turkey. Are you mıssıng the dots on your ı?

Reply 1193

I am ındeed :smile:

Reply 1194

Zhen Lin
Here is the tvtropes page for squee. See you in a few hours. :p:


So far I'm resisting, still only one tab open :tongue:

also

tvtropes
Fanartist: Here's my latest work, a picture of Sirius Black in bondage gear.
Fangirl: Squee!


eww.

Reply 1195

Athena
Adam Rutherford is following me on Twitter :coma:



Oh damn, that's quite cool!

But I'll raise you Stephen Fry :biggrin:

Reply 1196

Athena

I am in love with Adam R though. He's going through the Alpha Course atm (he has a Guardian blog) and we agree on so much :love: Curse him for being happily married with two kids!

Alpha Course?

Reply 1197

Athena
Yeah, it's meant to convert thinking agnostics/atheists to Christianity. However, some Alpha Course branches (each demonination teaches it differently) have been accused of being cult-ish. It got rammed down my throat a lot while I was at Oxford, in various guises, and I'm glad to see someone taking a reasonably considered look at it.

I know Alpha, just wasn't sure if you meant the christian one I know or something unrelated and sciencey :p:
And hmm... the original course and teaching materials from Nicky Gumbel/Holy Trinity Brompton are good, but obviously if the application is dodgy then that just ruins it.

Reply 1198

Athena
Make excited baby animal noises in. It's not quite a squeal, but something similar. And I think Amy uses the word squee to express excitement (for some reason, I associate it with :pinch: )

Any way, they aren't in here yet, are they? :p:

hehe, its the sort of word i'd mainly use in a typed context, but yes, you describe it very well!

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Good day today.

Got a gorgeous green dress originally from Kew for £8 from Cancer Research shop, and my boat primer arrived in a large satisfying parcel marked 'PAINT' :biggrin:

Reply 1199

ukebert
I am ındeed :smile:


How unusual, I have just returned from Turkey. Where are you based?