May the Interview Gods Have Mercy

Cambridge interview date confirmed and it’s exactly 3 weeks from now.

Honestly, I’m not really sure of what to expect. There are 2 interviews in total with a 30 minute prep for the first one and all in all it should take about two and a half hours to complete, gulp. I don’t think that any amount of interview practise is going to prepare me for what I’m going to be asked, it is definitely going to be something a bit out of the box. AND, that 30 min prep is for the first interview which is meant to to be a maths interview, lol what? It has to be either chemical maths or just maths, but either way it should be interesting.

I have begun some interview preparation, i.e. reading my chemistry notes and re-reading chapters of books relevant to my personal statement, and making notes on a few bits here and there. Aside from that, I have another practice interview lined up for this Friday and then hopefully another one in week or two, too much? I can’t wait until it’s over. I will be able to start reading all the other books I have on my list (don’t want to start now and cram my head with too much information) and continue with some of my projects that I’m yet to finish.

I also have some exciting news about a new project that I want to start in my gap year, stay tuned as you may well be super interested. All I can say for now is that it will be open to the public, ’nuff said. Still working out the fine details of it.

The Blogger Returns

Hey there. Been a little quiet on my blog lately so here is a well deserved update. I can’t remember where we left off, but I imagine it was before or during training for my new job. Training is now complete, it was pretty full-on and involved lots of product demos, till training and sales practise. After 2 weeks of training, I then spent a week helping set up shop and boy was there a lot of stock to move. Our stockroom is so tough to navigate with all the stock in it! :s Anyhow, our opening day was the Saturday just gone and it went really well. It was really busy, people were loving the free coffee and cake and we sold a really expensive coffee machine 😀 #win

Enough of the boring work stuff. I recently travelled down to Cambridge with my uncle to have a look around and get a feel for the college that I’ve applied for. We spent the first morning there on a tour around the Cavendish (physics) laboratory and it was amazeballs. It was like the ultimate man’s workshop, they had every tool that you could ever imagine and they were all just tinkering with their own projects, it was amazing to see. There was a machine that a researcher there had built over the majority of his life and it was absolutely massive, definitely looked like something out of a sci-fi film with all the vacuum pumps, aluminium casing and TUBES. My uncle and I then had lunch with some of his old teachers and co-workers, who knew physicists were such big fans of Thai food!

I then popped into the heart of Cambridge to meet a friend who’s studying Anthropology there (study of the human race I believe? – trying to be as broad as I can). She showed me round a bit of her college and it was definitely fancier than I thought it would be.

The next day was spent mostly at Fitzwilliam (the college that I’ve applied to), having a look around and then lunch at the high table. The lunch bit wasn’t as daunting as it sounds, it was actually very casual and I picked up some great advice for the Cambridge interview. All in all, it would be an absolute pleasure to study there, I loved it there, and I now feel that I have a better outlook on the place.

So that’s all from me for the time being, writing these blog posts takes forever so I think that I’m going to wait until something else exciting happens before I write another one.

PEACE.