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The Cambridge Chat Thread

abstraction98

I for one don't subscribe to the notion that we have to have something in reality to analyse its benefits or flaws in any real depth. Theoretical discussions suffices in many subjects at all kinds of levels.

Subscribe to whichever notion you wish, you still can't blame something that doesn't exist. In economics, especially, theoretical discussion rarely matches the reality. In terms of economic crises, it is possible to attribute most, if not all, to government action rather than the free market.

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abstraction98

Apagg

Subscribe to whichever notion you wish, you still can't blame something that doesn't exist. In economics, especially, theoretical discussion rarely matches the reality. In terms of economic crises, it is possible to attribute most, if not all, to government action rather than the free market.

Of course. I think we are arguing about two slightly different things here.

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Chewwy

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Tyrotoxism

you should probably switch to a serious news source.

lol.

dealbreaker -> clusterstock -> zero hedge was my progression through of finance blogs.

until i realised that actually alphaville was all one ever needed.

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brimstone

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Woo, tomorrow will be my first lie-in for several weeks. So much for relaxing during the holidays :rolleyes:

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Tyrotoxism

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Chewwy

lol.

dealbreaker -> clusterstock -> zero hedge was my progression through of finance blogs.

until i realised that actually alphaville was all one ever needed.

i've seen the light and solely read alphaville, though zero hedge looks pretty interesting.

dealbreaker is still worth reading if for nothing else but the comments.

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Apagg

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Whoof, finally packed for my move to London tomorrow. Moving all my stuff via train has presented some logistical challenges, so tomorrow I'll be taking a huge suitcase with all my clothes in as well as a 60 litre backpack with my Xbox and kitchenware. At least I don't have to do too many stairs...

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lavalse

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FadedJade

Very easy.

Do you have any experience of this or know anyone who has? Am just wondering if they would give you accommodation. And how do you go about finding the work? is it simply a matter of emailing the housekeeping staff?!

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Tom

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Apagg

Whoof, finally packed for my move to London tomorrow. Moving all my stuff via train has presented some logistical challenges, so tomorrow I'll be taking a huge suitcase with all my clothes in as well as a 60 litre backpack with my Xbox and kitchenware. At least I don't have to do too many stairs...

Cheaper/easier to hire a van for the day?

Sorry, bit too late to say that now, I know! :p:

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User182034

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Apagg

Whoof, finally packed for my move to London tomorrow. Moving all my stuff via train has presented some logistical challenges, so tomorrow I'll be taking a huge suitcase with all my clothes in as well as a 60 litre backpack with my Xbox and kitchenware. At least I don't have to do too many stairs...

I'll be coming down to Cambridge on the train as we don't have a car. It should be fun as I have a violin amongst my clothes, books and electrical items (laptop, radio etc) :s-smilie:

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fumblewomble

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lavalse

Do you have any experience of this or know anyone who has? Am just wondering if they would give you accommodation. And how do you go about finding the work? is it simply a matter of emailing the housekeeping staff?!

The job ads appear in the local papers and the college websites like any other job ads (look here http://cambridge.jobsnow.co.uk/). You wouldn't get accommodation though - they employ local people.

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scarlet ibis

leala4628

I'll be coming down to Cambridge on the train as we don't have a car. It should be fun as I have a violin amongst my clothes, books and electrical items (laptop, radio etc) :s-smilie:

James (FadeToBlackout) and I moved home by train, from his room in Cambridge and mine in London to our narrowboat which was in Birmingham at that point. It took several trips!

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thegluups

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Apagg

Woah woah, define right wing please.

Liberal/free market. (Sorry, 10 years of living in france means that for me anything free market and liberal will be right wing. Labour in France woudl most definitely be considered right wing). But I wasn't saying that to praise/criticise the newspaper. Just that the views it takes are quite pronounced in favour of capitalism/free market and the rest

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Craghyrax

OP

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leala4628

I wasn't really part of this as I've posted on here for a while now in bits and bats (as some of you will no doubt be aware and sick of ). I know Melz0r has too without a problem so I never saw it as ''us vs them''. What happened was immature but it wasn't helped by this kind of thing:

''You can come in when you're actually IN Cambridge. I have special permissing because a. I'm a postgrad and b. I actually know (as in, IRL...) some of the CamChatters ''

I'm only singling out this post as it's the closest one I can find but we have been told things like this previously which can only a) encourage those who are trolls at heart (Dave) and b) make those of us who only ever peeked in to make friends feel a bit like intruders and excluded. I don't want to be an intruder

Firstly, that post was at the trolling Freshers, not you. Secondly, I think this is all a bit exaggerated. There has not been a single occasion of any person in Camchat (which I've read each post of in the last three years) complaining about a Fresher or offer-holder posting in this thread. The recent lighthearted banter on the matter was offered solely in response to the apologies that you and Melz0r/others offered at the end of your posts. You guys assumed an apologetic attitude by yourselves, rather than in response to any concrete discouragement by Camchatters. As said before, we definitely do get a bit fed up if people blunder in with a long list of their grades, but I don't feel that there's anything wrong with that, when there are massive flourescent coloured stickies answering those questions in the forum, plus numerous threads there for them to refer to. Additionally several of us frequently get harrassed with PMs asking the same questions over and over again. The entire forum bar this thread is given over to those queries, so I have no qualms about issueing a definite 'shoo' once it begins to encroach.
Its been pretty much the same for as long as I remember. I still remember FadetoBlackout and visesh [correctly] telling me I'd soon grow hardened and cynical after having to deal with the same questions for years on end. Last years incoming Freshers certainly didn't make anything of this, and didn't seem to have any problems posting in here once their offers were confirmed.

Also, for goodness sake don't subscribe to the Economist! That's what college libraries are for!

On the issue of studying Education, all I can say is that you better logic yourself out of worrying about it fairly promptly. People will constantly be making small lighthearted (supposedly) comments about Homerton and Education once you arrive. The solution is not to care. I mean its all very sad. To be honest alot of Cambridge is about competition and people feeling superior for all sorts of things, and people will very much be buying into that alot of the time, even if some of it isn't on a conscious level. SPS gets just as much bashing, and the jokes stop being funny fairly quickly. However, I certainly didn't choose my degree with job prospects in mind, nor was I particularly interested in how academic people would perceive it to be. If you're interested in Education, what on earth would you study anything else for? :eyeball:

Economics might have great job prospects, but what good is that to anybody if you don't in fact like Economics? :rolleyes:

I couldn't study Politics or Sociology on any other course, and those are the subjects I knew I would find most interesting and fulfilling, so those complaints and stereotypes are empty :s-smilie:

Incidentally, I'm taking a paper called 'the Sociology of Education' next year, so I can quite easily relate to somebody finding the area interesting in its own right.

Scipio90

The main highlight of the Times on saturdays for me is the bit where pedantic people write in to complain about grammar.

Lol, Varsity is breeding a whole new generation of these, judging by the number of times you see people ticking them off for putting the apostrophe in the wrong place for Queens' (?)

abstraction98

I still think they're worth reading, even if they don't.

I like Peston :yep:

Scipio90

The food can be questionable, they're normally fun despite that though.

I thought you got so drunk they had to carry your inert body out of the hall last term... If so, it sounds like a person has to go to extremes in order to have fun at Christ's formals :s-smilie:

scarlet ibis

I am currently looking forward to my first proper bank holiday for some time, having worked in effing retail for most of the past year! (at least none of you job seekers have had to sink that low yet!)

I beg your pardon, young lady! :p:

thegluups

Liberal/free market. (Sorry, 10 years of living in france means that for me anything free market and liberal will be right wing. Labour in France woudl most definitely be considered right wing). But I wasn't saying that to praise/criticise the newspaper. Just that the views it takes are quite pronounced in favour of capitalism/free market and the rest

w00t! Sounds like I might move to France :awesome:

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munro90

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Just got back from bagging another munro :woo:

cue day sat around doing very little :biggrin:

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Scipio90

Craghyrax

I thought you got so drunk they had to carry your inert body out of the hall last term... If so, it sounds like a person has to go to extremes in order to have fun at Christ's formals :s-smilie:

Hmm, no, not me. That I remember, anyway. The worst that's happened to me is mild staggering. :tongue:

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The West Wing

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Craghyrax

Stuff

The recent Clare SPS alumini have almost all gone to do great things. In the recent years the 2-3 a year graduates we have are now training with Allen and Overy, One Essex Court chambers (who I met at the Barrister event this year), management roles in NGOs and charities, civil service fast track, investment banking, doing postgrad study at Yale etc.

I was completely assured and remain convinced that that career wise staying in SPS would be just as good as doing a subject like law, and that I could be free to remove this as a deciding factor between switching subjects, making my decision purely academic.

(this year one of them got 80, 80 for her dissertation :eek:

)

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thefish_uk

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munro90

Just got back from bagging another munro

cue day sat around doing very little :biggrin:

Only one? Lame.

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Craghyrax

OP

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What's a 'munro'? :lolwut:

The West Wing

The recent Clare SPS alumini have almost all gone to do great things. In the recent years the 2-3 a year graduates we have are now training with Allen and Overy, One Essex Court chambers (who I met at the Barrister event this year), management roles in NGOs and charities, civil service fast track, investment banking, doing postgrad study at Yale etc.

I was completely assured and remain convinced that that career wise staying in SPS would be just as good as doing a subject like law, and that I could be free to remove this as a deciding factor between switching subjects, making my decision purely academic.