Post-Exam Resolutions

Our exams run from 9am on Monday, 1st June to 3:15pm on Tuesday, 9th June.

We have a series of resolutions for post-3:15 9/06/09, which are as follows (everyone else - please add yours):

Felicity: have a drink (Pimm's, or G&T, or champagne, or bellini, or...anything with alcohol, basically) in hand by no later than 3:30pm on the 9th.
Felicity: remain pleasantly tipsy (that is, giggly-drunk) until leaving Cambridge at the end of the next week, with the brief exception of a few hours on the 14th to run 5k for charity.
Felicity: spend as much time as possible (i.e. nearly all of it) in either skirts or dresses. Be giggly. Be girly.
Felicity: tidy, clean and generally recover my room - revision makes it hard to find the bed...and the floor. Also tidy up tags and so forth on the blog, and re-do my facebook page, and...yeah, that stuff.
Felicity: on the evening of the 9th: locate the bath in Kennedy (apparently it's huge) and spend at least an hour in it. With champagne, or a glass of wine.

Julia: Be over dressed. All week.
Julia: Thwart plans to get me drunk! My liver shall be saved!
Julia: Pull an all nighter. Trashy films anyone?
Julia: Educate the others. Princess bride!

Everyone: try coco-pops and Bailey's. For breakfast.
Everyone: get Julia drunk. For Science!
Everyone: bake at least one thing while drunk.

Exam Stress

OK, so maybe Easter term is getting to us all...this is why you can often find us in panic-induced fits, experiencing catatonia, spending ridiculous amounts of time baking, or trying to lick each other. Well aware that this may confirm a Newnham stereotype, I wanted to share a quotation with you to dispel any rumours,and that was just too wonderful to simply be added to the quotations post:
'Julia, why do you keep putting oiled men into my head?'
'The grease makes them easier to get in.'
It is often said that we've finally lost it. This is in fact incorrect, as we obviously never had it.

Geraldine xxx

More on Lecture Notes

"I have deliberately avoided a fully-worded handout" - oh, please don't. We like fully-worded handouts...we'll take notes if we want to, but if you don't put it in the handout, we'll forget it.

"Almost all the content of these lectures is contained in [insert textbook authors' names here]. I suggest you buy and read it anyway." Yes, because we have time to read textbooks.

Later in the same handout:
"If you or your supervisors are still mystified..." IF?

You get extra credit in your Tripos essays if you provide evidence that you have read outside the lecture notes. This sounds great - rewarding scholarship, or something - but is actually rubbish, because you'll only have time to do extra reading if you give up sleeping, eating, or socialising (where 'socialising' means 'seeing anyone other than at lectures' in this context).

Love,
A frustrated Felicity xxx
Geraldine xxx

Lecture Notes

Are not always helpful as they should be:
'The adrenal medulla is a specialised collection of postganglionic sympathetic cells called the adrenal medulla.'
It's true, sure...but not exactly a mine of information.

Geraldine xxx