Cambridge week 4
Posted by martin on Monday, 31 October 2005 at 08:54
Well I will have been here a month tomorrow. I don’t have much to write about from this week so I will write a bit about why this is such a great place.
One thing I like is the variety of people I am living with. There are people from all around the world - 30% of Trinity’s students are from overseas (a lot from Poland). First there are those whom I see many times a day, who live along my corridor and it’s always good to say hello to or have a chat with. A group of us went to see the Wallace and Gromit film last week. Five out of ten are Mathmos and another two Natscis (Natural Science). Then when I go to Hall for a meal, I eat with other people from round the college who are studying lots of different subjects.
It is also a great place to learn. I have written about how useful I find supervisions; and always having another good mathematician to talk to about a problem is helpful. But for me who is interested in everything, there are lots of opportunities to learn about other things as well. For example there are the language courses I am doing, and a good college library. Plus of course you can go to lectures in other subjects - I did Engineering and Politics this week.
– Martin