Cambridge Alumni Magazine
Issue 84 – Easter 2018
Features
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On Boredom
Before the internet, boredom was something to be feared. Today, experts are wondering whether it might actually be good for us
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An alternative Student’s Guide
The first Student’s Guide to the University was written in 1863. Outrage, high jinks (and the sharing of the odd bit of useful information) has continued ever since
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Cabin Fever
Forget IKEA flatpack furniture. When you’re the Ottoman Emperor, the height of chic is a flatpack Scandi garden house
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Always On My Mind
Professor Giovanna Mallucci’s latest paper almost broke the internet: her research has the potential to transform the lives of patients living with Alzheimer’s disease
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I Know What You Read Last Summer
New books, old books and little-known books: CAM presents the definitive summer reading list
Regulars
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Caroline Wilson: Room 10, Downing
The former Europe director at the Foreign and Commonwealth office says getting out and about is key to making the most of Cambridge life.
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Campendium: Easter Term 2018
A new public policy research institute, Boat Race triumph, and the UL tower’s secrets.
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‘Hearing Caliban’s words in the 2012 Olympics was breathtaking’
Dr Jessica Gardner, the University Librarian, reveals the reads which have had the greatest influence on her life
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‘I realised Big Boi had sampled Aida on General Patton’
Julian Gregory (St John’s 2009), tenor, King’s Singers, shares the sounds which shaped his student days at Cambridge
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I was meant to start at another UK university. Then life happened
What is it really like to apply to Cambridge in 2018? Adeline Wee, Daniel Oluboyede and Esmee Wright talk form-filling, interviews and determination
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Much improv about nothing
The Impronauts are Cambridge’s oldest – and best-loved – comedy troupe. Allegedly
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A school, a park, a supermarket – and homes! Welcome to Eddington
Heather Topel is Project Director, North West Cambridge
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Older brains can learn new tricks
Professor Zoe Kourtzi is Head of the Adaptive Brain Lab, an Alan Turing Fellow and a Fellow of Downing.
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Lent Term went by in a flash as the Beast from the East brought wet socks – and cold toes
Dr Andrew Grant is a Senior University Lecturer in Microbial Pathogenesis in the Department of Veterinary Medicine and a Fellow of Jesus College.
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Inbox 84
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