Cambridge Colleges

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I'll try to present my view on the Colleges at Cambridge.

So what are these colleges anyway? They are the extra-scholar environment of Cambridge students. They provide accommodation, food, social events, sport clubs, seminars, library, advice and much more.

They don't have anything to do with the studies, as many people think. Well, they provide advice on studies and your academic situation is related to the college as well, but you don't have classes in your college. When you apply to Cambridge you can pick any college you want. It doesn't matter what you want to study. Consider the college as your place for fun.

My college is Darwin (http://www.dar.cam.ac.uk/). It is small in size, compared to Trinity, King's or Corpus Cristi, but it is in down town, close to my flat (see below), has a great and cheap bar (most people say it is the best pub in town), good food, many sport facilities and a very nice court yard by the Cam river. Also it has a great library, including all the books of Charles Darwin.

For a list of other colleges and may be some more info, check this:
http://www.cam.ac.uk/colleges/

Most of the colleges have single rooms for students. For couples (like me and Dana), they have flats near the college. We got a spacious 3 room flat. The main drawback is that is is very old, has a carpet that should have been changed many years ago, and it only has a bath, no shower. You should appreciate a lot having a shower in your home. Only when you get a flat like mine (without shower, just bath) you get to appreciate things like that. Well.. we'll try to improvise smth in the near future :D.

I've joined the football team at Darwin. We are more than 25 players, and we have two teams, each one playing in a different league, like the pro's and those just playing for fun. Actually I just got training today. We have games each week.

One week ago we had our fresher's Formal Dinner. That is, we all went dressed up in nice costumes (thanks Razvan for sending it) and we got a nice (free) dinner with all the members. We had time to chat and meet our Darwinian colleges. After the dinner we went to the bar downstairs and I must say it is really interesting to meet all these people with such different backgrounds and professions. I've never thought you can actually do a PhD in law. Well... it seems that I actually have several colleagues doing that.

The meals are each day (except Sunday), launch and dinner. The food is very good and the prices are as low as possible. Soup & Main course & coffee/tea 4 pounds.

Well.. I don't want to make it too boring, and Dana is calling for dinner. So I'll let you find more on the net if you want :)