Law to HSPS? Changing course at Cambridge
Sofiya is a third year HSPS student and currently Downing’s JCR President. The JCR is the name for the committee...
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Are you curious about our most crucially human attribute, language? Is a subject that combines the arts and sciences appealing?...
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On the 10th of January 2015 I received my offer letter from Downing to study Medicine. From that moment onwards,...
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On January 22nd Downing College’s hosted its first-ever BME (black and minority ethnic) Conference. This was a one-day event that...
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I’m Rachel, and used to be the Downing JCR Access Officer for 2016-2017. I was recently interviewed for a series...
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#CambTweet is a popular initiative run by the Cambridge Students’ Union on Twitter where current undergraduates tweet about their daily life. It’s...
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You hear a lot of things about the third term of the year at Cambridge… its actual name is Easter...
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We’ll soon be offering a new Alternative Prospectus – a guide to Downing written by current students for prospective applicants....
Read the full storyFirst Term at Cambridge – 2015
The first few weeks of term are all about finding your feet. Through all the meetings and activities fairs and...
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I applied to Cambridge thinking I was a physicist. Physics was what I was best at at school, I’d read...
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