I have been here two weeks (or is it two months?). So much has changed, to the extent that I am strangely nostalgic for my pre-Cambridge existence. It feels like a watershed moment, in the most brilliant way of course. I am surrounded by extraordinary, strange and wonderful people, from the computer science student with enough screens to take over the world to the English students with rooms full of arty photos.
I have been doing singing, rowing, I might be directing a play soon - in short, Cambridge fulfils the the standard expectations (not that there is much standard about the place). The terms are ridiculously short, so everything happens more or less at once.
There are dozens of stories to tell already, but for the moment I think I will let a former student at my college sum the place up far better than I can:
