What comes to mind when you think of Freshers’ Week? Is it the all-night partying, losing your voice while screaming along to Taylor Swift at 2am or perhaps those butterflies when you meet your soon-to-be best friends? Well, scratch all that… COVID-19 has distorted what should have been a week of mingling with others in close proximity […]
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Don’t ever allow yourself to feel like the imposter who named the syndrome! Iulia Lavinia Marin Dear fresher, Beginnings can be both exciting and scary. I remember bursting with joy when I received my acceptance letter from Cambridge. It felt like my academic efforts had finally been recognised and rewarded. As the months passed, this […]
A week normally filled with society fairs, games nights and nights out – or in Cambridge, library tours, pre reading and organising supervisions – Freshers’ Week in 2020 will not be as you know it. Freshers’ flu, rife each year, must now be avoided at all costs. Students are expected to maintain social distancing outside […]
The first time I was away from home overnight, I was nine. It was a four-day-long school trip to an outdoor centre in West Wales and I loved it. Being a fairly adventurous child obsessed with the outdoors, a few days of high ropes climbing, muddy assault courses and swimming in the sea was a […]