cambridge

so i guess this page is going to be about cambridge... well thats
ok i suppose...

tho i really ought to put up something that i can update often..

my feelings on cambridge
whilst i feel privileged to be studying here, being here actually does suck most of the time. Apart from anything i think that i've learnt that theres a difference between learning what you want at your own pace, and enjoying it, and being forced material down your throat at an ungodly pace so that you dont really get to appreciate what it is that you are supposed to be taking in.

After one year here, i still dun really know whats happening. everything seems to be in constant state of flux, and its probably my problem, but i cant really seem to fit in any where... perhaps i am a little too eccentric. i have made some really really good friends here at cambridge, but still, it doesnt feel the same. theres a difference about good friends at uni and good friends at high school,

having got a 2.1 in part 1a im hoping for a better result this year, but this really leads me to another problem that i have. I seem to have lost the confidence that i had at alevel, and perhaps more importantly, i seem to have lost the audacity to

my feelings on cambridge <cont>

question my teachers on what they are teaching me, and what kind of grades i should be getting. sometimes it feels like that i am here to get a 2.1 and thats all my teachers are expecting me to get. well.. i dunno.... see how it goes man. theres not really that much to say about cambridge. theres good points and bad points, but at the end of the day, its just another life at another institution, i would be writing this kind of stuff wherever i went anyway.

at the moment, i aint doing much apart from moaning about stuff and work, but to be honest, i am probably quite satisfied to be here. ok, maybe sometimes the people are shitty, but then i am shitty all the time, and then maybe sometimes the work is too much, and tripos is a bitch, but its a challenge, and i suppose i like challenges. but hey, i aint saying 'i enjoy the thrill of taking exams'. hehe, thats what i am man. even when im trying to write something serious i have to take a dig at what someones said that made me laugh. as u can tell i am a confused little boy... and i dun really know what i want. i suppose the only thing i am sure of is that i am grateful that i can be studying here.... but still i had to protest against the work somehow.. =)

well... if u aint bored of reading how i feel sorry for myself or even why i go on and on aobut cam, maybe you might want to see......

...My feelings on how to get into cambridge. and why st catharines accepted me

i dun really what the ultimate aim of writing this article is. is it so that i can get some self satisfaction in gloating over the fact that i got into cam, or is it so that some guys out there who are searching for clues as to how to get into cambridge can read something that is a personal view and not regulated by uni politics, something that might help them in their application? well i suppose, one might include the other, so im just gonna write whatever the fuck i want.

please note this really is a personal opinion only, so try not to rely on it too much.. treat it like a story... anyway, i think that cam application process is a tripartite thing. you have your application form, you have the interview and then you start thinking about what to pack.

to be honest its all bullshit. at least i think it is for law. the whole system is so systematized. no one is going to doubt that you have a shining, grammatically perfect, full personal statement. but everyone does. what matters i think is how much preparation you've done for the interview and much you want to get into

cambridge to do the subject that you want. of cos, i can only relate to studying law so, sorry if u this doesnt help an application for architecture...

i think there is a pretty standard system, and theres no need to worry too much about it all. you find a couple of relevant books, stick their titles in your written statement, so that your interviewers can ask you about it <tactics> use them to back up why u like law, then read them after/before you've sent off your application form so u can actually talk about them knowledgeably. then its interview time. just go there to have a fun time. for a start no one likes a miserable sod, and after all, you have travelled all the way from home. you might as well have fun.. or u might think as i did, i aint waking up at 5.30 to catch train and then go to an int. so that i can just fuck up. so you goto interview and you talk. u talk intelligently and you smile a lot. and make sure that you can think clearly about any problems your're given. if u dun know, you should say i dunno but i want to try. would it be ok to think about the problem like this? or how about like this?

well enuf of my rambling, if you think this is bullshit or u want some help with ur app feel free to mail me or add me icq 43740096. but i am thankful to catz for taking me, and i hope i havent sounded too arrogant at the cost of trying to break down the whole application process... well.. thanks for reading anyway..

tintin 2001



	06/12/03 man, i guess we really can see a theme developing here... guess what? I have exams again. and once again i am on this page updating. haha.. wonder why that is? But nevermind. for the record, i am once again lost in life. i have no idea why im doing the pcll. hvae no idea what im going to do in the future. but several key words do keep popping up. finance. china. USA. money. lets see how far we can get on that for now. where theres a will. theres a fucking way. yours truly. 12/04/03 leslie cheung: rest in happiness. 07/03/03 yoyo wassup!! i've been rejected in the last week by both harvard and stanford... thats pretty crappy huh? just recieved harvard's letter today.. i guess i wasnt really good enough.. but the thing is, im not so bothered... or in fact not that bothered at all... what really worries me is the fact that i dunno what else to do with my life.... i had hoped to figue that hout during my time doing a masters.. but this really means that I have to pick up my pace and begin life as an adult.. in an adult work.. doing adult stuff... man.. sounds scary...the thing is.. i'm kinda worried that i might just be another person stuck in the rat race.. you know, with a secure job, with a 2.4 kids. nice house... two cars, .. that kind of shit you know? i was hoping that i might be able to achieve better things, but since coming to cambridge my self confidence has slowly diminshed to nothing basically.. im not so sure that i will be able to achieve whatever i want.... but it remains to be seen.. at the moment the plan at the back of my head is to go into banking for maybe four years then start running my own business.. probably in consumer stuff... haha how vague does that sound? I dunno... so the conclusion is that i wont be going to live in the US, instead i'll be working, proibably in the UK,,,, and eventually moving back to China, Hong Kong... maybe passing Japan on the way... all remains to be seen... whether or not i waste the 70 or so years god has given me really... i was going to say remains to be seen.. but im sure of one thing actually. I definitely will not waste the 70 or so years that god has given me. i will succeed. god bless all. 24/10/2002 fucking hell man, updating my page after 8 months... do you call that inconsisteny, or do you call that loyalty? either la.. doesnt bother me.. ooh. .last year of my university life at cambridge lu.. one week before i go to take my GRE for US grad school applications.. i wonder how that will turn out.. i hope i get in.. if not, then i guess i';l have to go back to hk to qualify as a solicitor before getting a job. hahaha.. anyway.. what else can i say? theres so much that i havent put up!!! anyway.. about me.. i went back to hk for summer and did two summer jobs.. one at the government for the home affairs dept, and the other for SCMP... a newspaper.. if u didnt know... haha... man... life is ok.. i think im getting slightly better at this law thing.. though remains to be seen how i do... what else.? i dunno.. im supposed to be revisiing for my gre but really am quite tired.. otherwise.. i dunno.. maybe come back in a few months just to check this out... see you guys then.. take care.! 16/02/2002 wowee look at this man, its an update after...hhmm.. what is it.. lets have look..4 months.... wow... after four months i finally get my act together and decide to write some more on my life... well whats happened so far? i have no idea really.... its fifth week now, 3 more weeks until term ends, then a short holiday then exams already... have so much to do in the summer, most important of which is to do well in my exams so i can get a high two one, or even a first hehehe i wish... but anyway, after that i suppose its onto applications to US for mba and llm.... if i get accepted into either then im going to jump at the chance and do that, but i think it must be a deferred entrance because i think i had better take my LPC in the UK before i leave here for good..hhmm... shall have to see where all this leads i guess..... i can vaguely see the road ahead of me, but it looks to me like a hell of alot of hard work!! i suppose thats the problem with people isnt it? the world is quite so funny sometimes... ar well.. shall have to get moving now.... talk to you soon people! take care now 26/10/2001 its friday again, no more supervisions until tuesday.. will have to start work again though pretty soon, tho hopefully might get to play some badminton later on tonight. Havent done much today, tho last night was really pretty hectic, have to say that life is a bitch sometimes. or maybe its just cambridge. or not. well, we'll have to see how it goes i suppose. 23/10/2001 well here we are... this is the first msg that i have ever put up on this msg board. today is tuesday, and i have even more work than yesterday! yippee.... tho i did manage to get thru two supervisions.