Days to Come
Fri (3/6/2016)
- Paper 4 ends (12pm, Mill Lane)
- Anchor Pub (round the corner, Syd Barrett painting :) )
- Trinity College bar (eating Subway, got kicked out lol)
- Vintage port after dinner (not mine ofc, also got offered a ticket to an Oxford ball here lol)
- Drinks in JCR games room
Sat
- Morning Piano Transcription (Churchill Recital Room, idr which song)
- Winding Up Work (probably filing)
Sun
- French Open Final in TV Room (2pm; Ðoković loses it in my 1st year, loses in my 2nd and finally wins his first French on his 3rd try in my 3rd year yesss)
- Board Games with Cat (Catan)
Mon
- Punting (with random bunch I didn’t know that well, 2:30pm)
- Penultimate Fajita Night (Churchill mathmo tradition going back to the freshers’ boxes with free fajita mix; 7:30pm)
- Saxophone prac w/ Rory (mostly me tryna be Fela Kuti)
Tue
- Trinity Maths Society Garden Party (afternoon Pimms basically)
- Cold Shower (fucking boiler broke)
- Drinks With Cool Guy Marius (number fields tutor invited us to drinks, mostly remember someone telling me about Aussie goon)
Wed
- Tutor Meeting (3:15pm)
- Pool (with 1st-year Chu mathmos)
Thurs
- Lunch + Sainsbury’s (in Emmanuel garden)
- Emmy Noether Society Garden Party (just Pimms with Dr Cowley yano; 3pm)
- Dinner (Medwards)
Fri
- Archimedeans’ Punting Sesh (11am)
- Tutor Barbecue (12:30pm)
- Adams’ Soc Garden Party (2:30pm, drunk)
- Watching Mate Play Goofy Game
Sat
- Morning Room Errands (listening to Chu Jazz Soc play Shofukan by Snarky Puppy thru window)
- Laundry
- Grimsby + GameSoc (we were gonna get stoned and watch this Baron-Cohen film but location/friend-group politics left me at a loose end so I went to do puzzle at GameSoc)
Sun
- Scoping Out White-Tie Hire (the Oxford ball ticket may have been free (rrp £180-ish lol) but I still had to pay ~£75 for white tie)
- Saxophone prac w/ Rory
- Big Night In Games Room (not a clue what made it “big”; my notes just say “big” lmao)
Mon
- Mathmo Barbecue + Hangover (1:30pm; the only things I remember are someone dissing Only Connect and someone saying our friend Shilin’s English name could’ve been Julian)
Tue
- Nothinggggg
Wed
- Churchill Garden Party + Exam Results (12:00pm; remember someone yelled out results were out while I was playing volleyball. Also got to hear a quick Marie and the Boys performance)
- Walk to Girton (4:30pm; pastoral af)
- Drinks (with Isla)
Thurs
- Senate House Ceremony (9am; I witnessed the speech mentioned here)
- Psuedo-DoS Meeting
- Failed Founder’s Feast + Kebab (queued as a reserve cos not good enuff at life to be invited)
- GameSoc (Betrayal, Tractor + salad… idr what i meant by “salad” there haha)
Fri
- Basketball
- Bar (w/ Rory + CompScis)
Sat
- Mee and I (1pm; good udon resto pog)
- GameSoc (Canasta, Charades)
Sun
- Failed Football Plan (thought I’d organised mathmo vs natsci football but was just blown off by everyone so went gym by myself instead)
Mon
- Hopbine (burger resto someone wanted to go to; 6:30pm)
Tue
- Sainsbury’s + Scoping Out Grad Clothes (ended up nicking a gown someone found for me in the chapel and hiring hood only. also ran into Jordy from school (went Oxford), iirc?)
- Final Fajita Night (7pm)
Wed
- Bar (with summer internship crowd)
- Chapel Piano
Thurs
- Sort out Grad Clothes + Finance + Bike (borrowed from a student who’d left the previous year)
- Drinks with Personal Tutor (a PhD student was assigned to me purely for helping me plan and coaching/moral support – super-effective intervention, highly recommended! 8pm)
- Last Saxophone prac w/ Rory
Fri
- Preparing for Tomorrow (I woke up to everyone around me crying about Brexit KEKW)
Sat (25/6/2016)
- Graduation (from 9am, Senate House)
- White-Tie Hire (me on way back from Senate House to college wearing grad clothes carrying white tie)
- Grad Lunch (could only stay about 20 mins)
- Final Moving Down (3pm)
- Cam → Ldn → Ox (carried all my stuff back home)
- Magdalen Ball (7:30pm, was late to this obviously and the ticket holder ditched me to wait in an admin queue, whence I was rescued by a different organiser, 1.5h late in all. Chase and Status was live tho)
Sun
- Lunch in Turf Tavern (1:30pm)
- Sitting On Bench in Keble College ( :) )
- Magdalen Disabled Toilet White-Tie Stud Rescue (didn’t lose my deposit let’s goooo)
- Ox → Ldn (4:15pm)
Mon
- Backups + Cloud Storage Reshuffle
Tue
- Marie and the Boys (live at Off the Cuff, Herne Hill, 8:30pm; walked back to Brixton after (monkaS) and saw 2ice busking there, then Tube home)
Weds
- Ldn → Cam (12:30pm)
- Cards + Spotify Evening
Thurs
- Return White-Tie + Sainsbury’s + On/Off Sleeping (I started getting really into modern jazz, exploring AJE’s Suite Shop, first-listen of FlyLo’s You’re Dead!, just really excited about new horizons)
Fri
- More Rest (most people had moved home by now)
- Scrabble in Maths Faculty Library
Sat
- Half-Day Solo Cycling Trip to Coton
- Gym
Sun
- Full-Day Solo Cycling Trip (Churchill → Sidgwick Site → Grantchester Meadows (+ Orchard Tea Garden) → Trumpington → Busway (wonderful liminal space totally alone surrounded by distant factories) → Addenbrooke’s Hospital → Homerton/Hill’s Road Colleges → Anglia Ruskin → Midsummer Common → King’s Parade → New Museum’s Site)
When I first imagined going to Cambridge, I happened to be listening to In Rainbows while clicking thru Street View around Queens’/St. Catz Colleges. So on the home stretch of this final cycle, I put it on my headphones and cycled back to the 1st-year lecture hall and bike parking where it all began. Then back to college :) Heval’s kebab van was closed >:(.
Mon (4/7/2016)
- Private Open-Day (guiding for my school, 10:30am)
- Cam → Ldn (3pm; school bus)
- Fin