Ok so hi to those of you reading my first blog, first of all I have to apologise in advance as I have never done this sort of thing before but hopefully it’ll read relatively coherently and be of use. As this is the first, unfortunately I’ll be boring and introduce myself.
My name’s Jake and I’m a first year, and so I’m told I’m the only “blogger” who has missed the deadline and got their first blog in late. To sum up extra info, I’m mad about rugby, a big music fan, and generally disorganised.
The reason someone so useless is writing a blog for you is as follows. All universities I’m sure hold what’s called a fresher’s fair. At mine, amongst all sorts of stalls and pizza-menu-thrusters there was a tent with a massive sign outside that read “Win an iPhone,” so of course I checked it out. The idea was that you gave your details and then read a statement into a camera; after which you drew a number from a box to see if you’d won. I didn’t, and that was it. However it turns out that my shoddy pronunciation and lack of eye contact were appealing attributes, so after phone calls and emails I was repeating similar statements into a camera for the film thing, and now I’m blogging. As I’m a first year, I’m still getting used to the whole Cambridge bubble, workload and generally novel environment despite it being the second term, so perhaps my experiences will be of interest to prospective students. I turned up to Cambridge a bit worried that I’d be one of few state school students, foul-mouthed, without much money, and that I really wouldn’t get on with many other students, but only a day in and I was already having a laugh with my neighbours (also freshers), taking my aggressive and rude “keep off” labels off my food and drink I’d brought from home, and generally feeling at ease. The truth is, there are literally all sorts of people here in Cambridge, there really is no way someone could come here and not make plenty of friends.
Something I would mention briefly is sport. One of my first goals was to get on the College rugby team and get straight into sport again, which in my opinion is a must for the majority of students; get into a College sport whether you’re a beginner or an expert. Even if it’s netball. You’ll meet some great people and it will keep you relatively fit. There is so much I can go on about that I believe really will be of use, like diet, work, social life, but they’ll have to wait for following blogs I think. Thanks for reading, I hope it all made sense.
