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Reply 20
MadNatSci
You would actively go to Wetherspoons?

Urrrrrgh.

Give me the Bun Shop any day :smile:


the wetherspoons on the wirral are verry classy places! so's the one near lime street station for that matter. lovely place

cakes are also good...where is this fabled bun shop?
Reply 21
MadLy
Eh? Is this a real cake shop, or a secretive drinking establishment....for those in the high-society lists of Cam?! :smile:


I think it's on King Street, not sure. I think it's actually a pub, but I've never been there. Have been to Wetherspoons on more than one occasion though :redface:.

And at least Cellars connects to the bar proper - yours seems to be off down a little corridor somewhere.
Reply 22
It's a pub on the corner of King's Street/Malcolm Street. Good for pre-formal drinks/post-Cuppers lunch.
Reply 23
lol - i honestly thought it was a cake shop until i was taken there one day for sausage and mash! it does quite decent food, and tapas too. it's pretty much opposite the back entrance of Christ's college, and close to clowns' - an eaterie that does have good cake!
Reply 24
juliette
lol - i honestly thought it was a cake shop until i was taken there one day for sausage and mash! it does quite decent food, and tapas too. it's pretty much opposite the back entrance of Christ's college, and close to clowns' - an eaterie that does have good cake!


tapas? tapas?! :biggrin: :biggrin:
Reply 25
mmmmmm tapas!
Reply 26
Willa
mmmmmm tapas!


it's great isn't it! went out for some on resukts day...went into town afterwards for a drink, feeling VERY ill from the half a stone i had suddenly scquired
Reply 27
hehe i'm reasonably lucky...i dont put on weight. I think it's cos I dont drink. I find people who drink things like Beer put on weight. But beer = yuck, hence I dont put on weight. Although I havent weighed myself in months, so I dunno!
Reply 28
Willa
beer = yuck

:eek: :confused: :frown:

Well each to his own I suppose... :smile:
Yeah, the Bun Shop is the pub right behind Sidney and is very handy for drinks after or before socials (or choir rehearsals, ahem). The food is good and reasonably priced and it's got a nice little hidey table bit where you can hide away from the rest of the punters...

I've also had the King Street noodle bar recommended to me. Anyone able to back this up?
pop
which is the most 'social' college?

Hate to point out to you all but Emma is full of anuses. THey aren't sociable at all. Much as i hate to say it, internally Girton is most social because they have a proper communitry up there.
Peterhouse peeps tend to get themselves about (cos there aren't many in their own collegE)
and no one likes homerton so they keep to themselves
J
Reply 31
I will not have you badmouthing Emmanuel. Clearly you do not know anything, or are very socially blind! I applied to Emmanuel because I personally perceived it to be very friendly when I have visited it. I haven't heard a bad word said about Emmanuelites from other college's students until your comment here today! So you must be in a minority. Yes I agree that emma might not be THE friendliest college, because that's down to opinion (personally I think it is the friendliest college, but that's biased), but I dont think there is much doubt about it actually being a friendly college.
Willa
I will not have you badmouthing Emmanuel. Clearly you do not know anything, or are very socially blind! I applied to Emmanuel because I personally perceived it to be very friendly when I have visited it. I haven't heard a bad word said about Emmanuelites from other college's students until your comment here today! So you must be in a minority. Yes I agree that emma might not be THE friendliest college, because that's down to opinion (personally I think it is the friendliest college, but that's biased), but I dont think there is much doubt about it actually being a friendly college.

So by your own admission i actually have much more experience of emma than yourself.
It is not as sociable a college as many others. I'm not saying the people aren't friendly, I'm talking about people getting out in the town, and meeting people from other colleges. Even going out with people from their own college. It just isn't the thriving college you might wish it to be.
Seven of the top ten medics in my year went to emma. Only one of them (ironically the top one) actually knew anyone/ever went out.

Really mate, you haven't a leg to stand on unless people stand up and say 'wait I know loads of emma people they're wicked, they come out all the time...'
J

Note - Funk da Bar the wednesday shindig at emma bar usually has about 4 times more peeps from other colleges in it than from emma. How do i know? I know/knew the bar staff and organisers.
Reply 33
foolfarian
So by your own admission i actually have much more experience of emma than yourself.

Wow, you must be really good at reading between the lines, because I don't see where Willa said that.

Secondly, this poll is stupid. I haven't found people at any one college to be the most friendly or social, and of course every college likes to boast that they are the most friendly (often in the absence of anything else to boast about!). There is a difference in people's perception of different college students, I'll admit that, but that's down to rivalry and ignorance as much as anything else.

If you really want to know what our stereotypical views are of the most social colleges, I honestly don't think Homerton, Peterhouse or Girton would be shortlisted. I don't mean any offense by that, it's just the way they're seen. As I said, there's not much substance to people's views in my opinion.

If you want to ask a more useful question, how about which college has the best ents or the best bar? Emma has a pretty cool bar, and Queen's ents are big business now and it shows.
Reply 34
Willa
I will not have you badmouthing Emmanuel. Clearly you do not know anything, or are very socially blind! I applied to Emmanuel because I personally perceived it to be very friendly when I have visited it. I haven't heard a bad word said about Emmanuelites from other college's students until your comment here today! So you must be in a minority. Yes I agree that emma might not be THE friendliest college, because that's down to opinion (personally I think it is the friendliest college, but that's biased), but I dont think there is much doubt about it actually being a friendly college.


think that's where he implied foolfarian had more experience of other colleges.

in the grand scheme of things, does it actually matter? i know i tend to skit at other colleges/oxford a fair bit, but i never do it with malicious intent, which is what this could be classed as being. if we can't have respect for people from our own university, what chance have we got in the real world? really?

just remember, we all wanted the same thing, there was probably a time during our application processes when we must have thought, even for just a brief second "i don't care which college i go to, as long as i get an offer."
Reply 35
OK this poll, as pointed out earlier, is pretty dumb, not because the colleges short-listed are in anyway 'unsociable', but simply because they are so many other colleges that could be shortlisted too! also, it's down to your year group and the subject u do in most cases... medics as a whole tend 2 b pretty social, as an example...

also, i'd jus like 2 bk up foolfarian on a few points he made bout emma... all u ppl with offers/thinkin of applyin 2 emma seem 2 b under the impression tht it's the social hangout of cam! obv i wouldnt go far as sayin tht it's unsociable, but there's def a case for sayin tht the atmosphere can b quite intensive and competitive, which may contradict some ppl's preconceptions about emma... i know several medics in my yr at emma - they r a gd bunch, but i gotta say r pretty work-orientated, and a hardly ever see them out anywhere! and yeh, its tru tht most of the top ten medics last yr were frm emma...

when ur lookin at sociable colleges, i'm surprised tht robinson isn't up there - i'm not tryin 2 big up my own college, but it's way more down-to-earth and easy going than most places!

also priya, great point - someone with half a bit of commen sense on this thread!

just my 2p's worth,
K
Reply 36
foolfarian
So by your own admission i actually have much more experience of emma than yourself.
It is not as sociable a college as many others. I'm not saying the people aren't friendly, I'm talking about people getting out in the town, and meeting people from other colleges. Even going out with people from their own college. It just isn't the thriving college you might wish it to be.
Seven of the top ten medics in my year went to emma. Only one of them (ironically the top one) actually knew anyone/ever went out.

Really mate, you haven't a leg to stand on unless people stand up and say 'wait I know loads of emma people they're wicked, they come out all the time...'
J

Note - Funk da Bar the wednesday shindig at emma bar usually has about 4 times more peeps from other colleges in it than from emma. How do i know? I know/knew the bar staff and organisers.


I dont think you are justified to say it's not as sociable as other colleges. My key point was that the people I know at cambridge (and that's people who arent here on UK-L) think of emma as a very good friendly college. Hence I believe you to be in a minority.

If we take your figuring on this, trinity would probably be the friendliest college because it has the most people, hence you are more likely to know people from trinity who socialise.
Emma looked plenty friendly to me.
:confused: I agree with priya, what's with the vitriol here?

They're all great places. The time you have isn't really going to depend on what college you're at so much as how you make it yourself. Even if you don't get on with people in your own college there are about 11,500 other undergraduates to make friends from. If you still can't get on with any of them, that says more about you than the other students.
Reply 38
priya
in the grand scheme of things, does it actually matter? i know i tend to skit at other colleges/oxford a fair bit, but i never do it with malicious intent, which is what this could be classed as being.


What you're saying makes a lot of sense. I appreciate the light-hearted side of college rivalry, and I know that virtually every college has a stereotype - it's all part of the fun. Often it even goes a bit beyond fun. I'm not trying to be unrealistic here.

However, it does appear that some people who are in or have been to Cambridge take these stereotypes extremely seriously indeed. That's up to them. But remember that on this forum, MOST of the students are either prospective applicants or coming up this year, so it seems more than a little unfair to rubbish their college, knowing that they cannot defend it.
Reply 39
sbailey
However, it does appear that some people who are in or have been to Cambridge take these stereotypes extremely seriously indeed. That's up to them. But remember that on this forum, MOST of the students are either prospective applicants or coming up this year, so it seems more than a little unfair to rubbish their college, knowing that they cannot defend it.


Hmm, I do agree with that, however I do also feel that sometimes there is ridiculously overt amounts of patriotism from students who, while they may "know people" or have been up and been out once for interview, have not actually lived there yet. Emma supposedly has this rep, but I find that in Cambridge, it's far less of a big thing than it is on here. Fresher enthusiasm is great, and I had it majorly last year, but it can blind you a little. After a while I began to realise that there are a number of colleges where I'd probably be just as happy as I am at Clare, and though now I wouldn't want to be anywhere else, it's not the only place I like.

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