There were whispers, and Joe nudged me to turn around, and it was true: Stephen Hawking had just entered the hall, and went to eat at the high table a few metres away from where I was eating.
Just thought I’d kick off with that 
Cambridge is amazing, obviously. It’s also hectically busy – my desk (see below) is already lost underneath paper, there’s a multitude of events running seemingly at the same time, and everyone’s trying to remember as many names and faces as they can. We’ve already had a bop! My room really is luxurious for student halls, with en suite bathroom with shower and a lovely large modern desk to work at. Although my laptop does now have Internet access, the intensity of the first few weeks probably won’t allow for much idle usage! However, here’s a quick photo of a bit of my room 
My room!
Because it’s all brand-spankingly new and modern, our university card also acts as a key to our rooms, which also means it’s inevitable you will accidentally lock yourself out at one point. I already have.
Proper lectures kick off on Thursday, though I have supervision tomorrow where I’ll get set an essay for next week, and today we got given stacks of reading lists. Interestingly, us History students seem to be grouping together quite a bit.. the lovely group of people that we are
Must dash! Love to all of you (especially you, and you, and youuu)
For a while, at least 
Yes dear long-suffering blog attendees, tomorrow morning I’m off to uni. Obviously, I’ll still blog. Obviously. But here it is, a tearful farewell to home. Goodbye, house where meals mysteriously get cooked and laundry done. Goodbye, Willesden, with your charming disregard for even paving stones. Goodbye, London, with your uniformly red buses and excitingly grimy city aura. If this was RV, Nic would already have added ‘in Cambridge’ to my banner in a cheerful red font, but it isn’t so he hasn’t.
Will miss you all!
I’ll be back
In preparation for moving out, I’m going through the stacks and stacks of paper which managed to accumulate in my room over the past few years. Some things are making me smile, like:
- A paper aeroplane, described as ‘the magical, mathematical plane!’ except where someone (hmm, guess who..) has replaced this with ‘red plane’ and a hammer and sickle
- A sheet bravely entitled ‘How to pass A-Levels’ written during some dark day in Year 13
- The time I put myself on report, where Mr Moore has called me troublesome and petulant
- Posters stolen from Waseley and given to me, along with a party streamer
- Endless cartoons scribbled on otherwise serious work. King Louis XVI is attacked for leaving out the definitive article by an angry crowd of French people. A size zero girl in the shape of a giant zero. That kind of thing.
- The model answer given to us an example of how to answer the English Literature war exam. This was mightily depressing.
- A statistical formula on the probability of being a nasty girl
- Using the title ‘Mock Blake’ at the start of as many mock exams as I could
Oh, begone you paper!
Tonight was quite an emotional evening. Wonderful to go out to Camden with Joshua, Sanna, Robert, Emily and Saoirse and drink mango beer once again, though tinged by the thought that I probably won’t see any of them again for a while. Having said that, it was a really fun night, and using my swanky new digital camera I captured some great photos for the memories. Couldn’t really resist blogging a few, so here they are
You lot rock
Happy!
And so am I 😀
Amusing photo of Robert
Much love
Also, thanks to Marion for the new Sugababes song! Thought you deserved a mention
Just back from a Cambridge party for London-based freshers (St. Mark’s Church, Old Marylebone Road) which was really, really good fun. Like speed-dating, we mingled from person to person, occasionally discovering someone doing the same subject, or going to the same college, or – exceptionally! – the same subject and the same college! These were special occasions indeed
Seriously though, every single person I spoke to was open and friendly, and it’s really made me excited about going to live around this talented bunch of people. People who are genuinely passionate about their subject too – I found a girl who matches my options exactly for the first year of History, and we had a good chat about how other people are silly for wanting to go and do ancient stuff rather than modern politics and suchlike 
(only kidding – there’s room for us all!)
Oh, and there was free wine. And the Cambridge guy told us we were all smart for choosing Cambridge (duh) and that “I saw the line of people queueing to get in here and thought I was outside a branch of Northern Rock…”
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