Class was fairly slow today. We did get to go over epigenetics (yay!) but it was fairly basic and so not terribly exciting. I'm much more interested in the current research and the possibilities of future research than in the basics I've already gone over. Nevertheless, I was still brain dead by the time I got out of class, so the romp around town I took with Hannah was much needed.
I finally got myself a Cambridge shirt (official, which means more expensive than it needed to be) and we wandered into a bookstore to get lost. Coming back from the bookstore, I felt like I had just woken up from a heavy and dreamless sleep- a little disoriented but very calm and quiet. I love getting lost in bookstores. We found an entire section devoted to steampunk. Granted, it was only about three feet wide, but it went from floor to ceiling and was labeled. The British have their categories figured out! I really doubt I'd run into that in California. It was very cool to flip through some of the how-to-steampunk books because I saw a few things and people that I saw at Makers Fair when I when with Dad, Madeline, Dave, Della, Hanna, Tim, and Dexter (the trilobite and the League of Steam!). Definitely approve.
My professor gave us a strong hint about one of the questions on the midterm on Thursday, so I've been trying to get things sorted out with that subject and I really should revise the essays that are due at the end of the week, but I'm finding it hard to study in the evenings. I've been studying all day in class. Sigh. Back to work. Yay I'm in Cambridge!
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PS- don't worry about the rioting in London. Cambridge is 30 minutes away and we haven't been affected at all.
PPS- Dad, I talked to the girl who serves coffee/tea (she's a cambridge student from sweden) and she said that the ratio of public school kids to private school kids is something like 6:4 in her opinion and that because public schools were getting better, things have been swinging that way. I don't really think that all of the private schools are boarding schools, so I think that settles the question we were all having at Pinecrest. -grin-
um 6:4??... why not put it as 27:18? Seems like she needs a little help with her ratio's. :-)
ReplyDeleteAnd, still no interaction with Cambrige students?? Where do they hang out at night?
6:4 was me simplifying 60% to 40%. lol!
ReplyDeleteI think Cambridge students aren't really around during the summer! Thats one of the problems!
The social scenes are the pubs (and apparently for the English its less about the drinking and more about the socializing), but the only people who go out to the pubs from our program are giving me the impression that they are getting drunk every time (NOT my kind of thing) and I don't really want to just wander into a pub alone esp since I'm not going to order a drink and I'm not good at just talking to random strangers and also I'm really not into crowds. Sorry dad! I don't know what to do in a pub! I just don't think pubs are my thing. It's like Noaa in a ballet studio! I'd have to want to hang out with someone specific to go in one during prime time. I'm not even sure when prime time is. AAAAAAASORRY!!!!!!!!!! I'm not good at this!
And yes, I'm disappointed at the program's lack of interaction with the place we are in.
But I did have a conversation with Teresa the tea lady, who is about our age and from Stockholm. But I don't think that counts as Cambridge.
If people from your group are going to pubs, JOIN THEM FOR AN HOUR, then go out on your own adventures! You dont have to drink or stay till they are drunk! Just go socialize! Hanging out with only Hanna and yourself is not socializing.... Ahem....
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