
{"id":2612,"date":"2019-05-16T11:59:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T11:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/student-life-is-rather-vibrant-in-the-university-town-of-cambridge\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T12:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T12:36:10","slug":"student-life-is-rather-vibrant-in-the-university-town-of-cambridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/student-life-is-rather-vibrant-in-the-university-town-of-cambridge","title":{"rendered":"Student life is rather vibrant in the university town of Cambridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">I\u2019ve wanted to post something for a while, but I wasn\u2019t sure where to start. And I\u2019m still not really sure, hence this opening sentence.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">So, I guess I\u2019ll start where I left off.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Packing.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Eh&#8230; no, we can skip over that.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Arriving at Cambridge.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">I arrived at Cambridge exactly one month ago on September 26 to move in to a small row house with three other students. My room is basically the same size as my dorm room at U-Chicago, except now with a bonus wheelie chair and added storage space! There is also a shared kitchen space and bathroom, and other communal areas include the stairs and the landings.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">It\u2019s a comfortable space that backs out to the backs of a few cafes, and occasionally I will hear cooks shouting (maybe, just talking?) at each other in Italian during their breaks. Well, that and the routine disposal of glass bottles.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Among the four of us living in the house, we cover three continents and four countries: the US, UK, Greece, and Chile. The College with which I am affiliated, Magdalene College (pronounced almost pretentiously as the French\u00a0<i>Maudalene<\/i>), is also quite international, as is the general graduate student body. There are students from everywhere in Magdalene: US, New Zealand, South Africa, Germany, Spain, Brazil, Malaysia, China, Switzerland, Pakistan, and yes, a few from the UK.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive\" title=\"Default Title Text\" src=\"http:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Student%20life%20is%20rather%20vibrant%20in%20the%20university%20town%20of%20Cambridge%20image%201.jpg\" alt=\"Default Alt text\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%228221%22,%22view_mode%22:%22default%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22default%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Default%20Alt%20text%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Default%20Title%20Text%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Btextfield%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Bvalue_field%5D%22:%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Magdalene\u2019s matriculating undergraduate and graduate students. It\u2019s ok, don\u2019t try to find me, just know I am one of the blurred faces\u00a0(Bonus points if you do find me).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Cambridge has 31 colleges, each of which houses a small number of students like in Magdalene or a very large number like in St John\u2019s. The most famous are King\u2019s College and Trinity College, known for their beautiful architecture. Magdalene was founded sometime in the 1500s (when it\u2019s that far back, why bother with exact dates?) as a hostel for monks near the river Cam, as our Master, Rowan Williams (fun fact: the former Archbishop of Canterbury\u00a0who married Prince William and Kate), said to \u201ckeep the monks on the other side of the river away from the evil of the undergraduates.\u201d It was closed down and then re-opened for students a hundred or two hundred years later. Now, in 2015, I live there and am doing laundry as I write.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">My program is a one-year MPhil in Middle East Studies by research. There are only four other MPhil\u00a0students in my program and several PhD students, which facilitates discussing research and common interests. This means that classes are not required, but I can sit in on any lecture that may be helpful for my work. By August 12, 2016 I need to turn in my 25000-word dissertation. I have until then to spend my life in the library. But I won\u2019t. Not only is my research on a contemporary topic, which will allow me the luxury of using online sources and journals, but I also don\u2019t want to spend my entire year in the library.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Student life is rather vibrant in this university town.\u00a0<a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=punting&amp;es_sm=91&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0CAcQ_AUoAWoVChMImrOFscPeyAIVwl4UCh2SOwAv&amp;biw=1440&amp;bih=801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Punting<\/a>\u00a0is the first activity I observed while going to pick up my room key. It\u2019s an age-old tradition, as is everything here. Rowing is also huge. Social drinking at pubs or just during your evening stroll is quite common.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">And\u00a0now I sound like Rick Steves.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive\" title=\"Default Title Text\" src=\"http:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Student%20life%20is%20rather%20vibrant%20in%20the%20university%20town%20of%20Cambridge%20image%202.jpg\" alt=\"Default Alt text\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%228222%22,%22view_mode%22:%22default%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22default%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Default%20Alt%20text%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Default%20Title%20Text%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Btextfield%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Bvalue_field%5D%22:%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Magdalene College along the River Cam<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">My favorite part of student life, besides the fact that there are so many organizations, is that I am always meeting someone new. As a grad student, I feel that socializing comes with a bit less anxiety than it did in my first year of college, and everyone is always interested and interesting.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">There have been a lot of events my first week to meet the other graduate \u201cfreshers\u201d like me, most recently at our matriculation dinner. The dinner took place in our formal hall (so epically called \u201cHall\u201d) for all the new graduate students in the College. Wearing our academic gowns was mandatory, and the only form of light present in the hall was candlelight, and so it was an experience straight out of Harry Potter and also very dark. Seating was arranged by department, and once I had groped my way to my seat, I met\u00a0a professor from my department who has done similar\u00a0work on national identity. We had a really meaningful conversation about my research and then had a really great conversation about non-research things. We are the only two from Middle East studies affiliated with Magdalene, so everyone else at the table was an engineer. Conversations with them usually proceeded as follows:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Me: So what kind of engineering do you do?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Engineer: Aerodynamics!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Me: I know some of those words.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Engineer: So I\u2019m basically looking at how something-something-something\u2026 science\u2026 something-science\u2026 science-math-something\u2026 and the something-lab-something-science will take me three years.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">And so on. As for the actual meal, it was of course quite fancy. The duck was rather\u2026 chewy\u2026 and the dessert was delicious, but the best part was after it had ended and we just stayed and talked and grew sleepy in the warm, low-lit hall.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive\" title=\"Default Title Text\" src=\"http:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Student%20life%20is%20rather%20vibrant%20in%20the%20university%20town%20of%20Cambridge%20image%203.jpg\" alt=\"Default Alt text\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%228223%22,%22view_mode%22:%22default%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22default%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Default%20Alt%20text%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Default%20Title%20Text%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Btextfield%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Bvalue_field%5D%22:%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Welcome to Hogwarts. I mean, \u201cHall.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">I have adjusted quite a bit\u00a0to the new ways of doing things, which is part of the reason I like to travel. It is a challenge sometimes, but I believe that every time I do travel, my comfort zone gets a bit bigger and my understanding of the world ever so slightly increases.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">I\u2019ve been asking a lot of queries,\u00a0and standing in queues, and standing in queues to ask queries. As I continue to figure things out and get more into my research, I will post many more updates.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">For now, my laundry is done, and it is time for me to head back home\u00a0through the sidewalk\u00a0full of tourists, with my ginormous bag of laundry and photobomb as many pictures as I can.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Melissa Gatter (<\/i><a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/melgatter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>@melgatter<\/i><\/a><i>) is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge. This story was published on October 26, 2015, on Melissa\u2019s blog, <\/i><a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/theworldbehindthecurtain.wordpress.com\/\"><i>The World Behind the Curtain<\/i><\/a><i> (available <\/i><a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/theworldbehindthecurtain.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/26\/queues-and-queries\/\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><i>), and has been republished here with her permission.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve wanted to post something for a while, but I wasn\u2019t sure where to start. And I\u2019m still not really sure, hence this opening sentence. So, I guess I\u2019ll start where I left off. Packing. Eh&#8230; no, we can skip over that. Arriving at Cambridge. 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