Something i would love to see is a time lapse of your work, your phone should have a time lapse mode and if you could video the amount of work you do and how many pages that would be awesome!
I had really bad homesickness when I first went away to college too and for anyone else dealing with it, the best tool is distraction, distraction, distraction! Find anything to do or even just get out for a walk even if you don't feel like it...anything to get out of your own head. Eventually the new place starts to feel as comfortable as home, and I had my four best years at college!!!
This is so inspiring to hear you speak so honestly about you experiences, I felt the exact same way when I started boarding school (I'm off to uni next year). From my experience it does get better, and each term it's easier and easier to settle back in. You're not a wuss for crying, every cries, whether or not they admit it! An a level revision tips video would be brilliant by the way! xxxx
I started university 8 years ago now- but that feeling of being left in my room in halls is still fresh in my memory. I remember being absolutely terrified. The best thing to do is just get involved in everything that university has to offer (like you have :)).
I started university this year too and I totally know how you felt - I was a wreck from homesickness for the first couple of weeks and it honestly made me want to drop out, like I'd just sit in my room and cry for ages lmao. I'm so glad you settled in (and I eventually did too). I talked to a mentor at my university too and it helped me so much!!! Hope the next term goes okay for you xx
You sound like you had exactally the same type of freshers week as i did. I'm now in 4th year at uni doing chemistry and I always look back now and laugh at myself, but as you've already seen it gets better! and to the hungry thing, I am with you on that one. I think it's because you're either actually hungry, procrastinating hunger, or being either more physically and/or mentally active.
Wow Cambridge sounds so tough! I'm a second year Literature student at Hertfordshire (you've probably never even heard of it hahahaha) and I respect you sooo much as your first semester at Cambridge seems to have been so much more intense than my whole uni experience to date. You should be so proud of yourself! X
I moved to uni in September 2015 and was so incredibly homesick, but it eventually got better and I finally felt settled by around the end of first year, I'm now in my second semester of second year and so glad I hung on :)
Great, brave and honest video and so,so important - think it will comfort many who are struggling initially with uni. It's so common and yet 'hidden'/not spoken about enough, which can make people feel worse as they then put pressure on themselves to have ' the best years of their life'!. You seem to have a fab perspective (work/life balance). Good luck for when you return after the holidays :-)
I would love to do biological natural sciences at Cambridge, do you think you could explain a bit about what you've studied so far in more detail? I'm just really interested to know what it's like!
happy new year! i hope 2017 is the year you and i and all of us grow and achieve the success we want! and i look forward to go through every week to watch your vlogs
I would love to see a 'What I eat in a day' vlog, rather than a vlog that stretches out across the whole week and only shows some of your meals. I would really love to see everything you eat across 1 day
i'm almost 18 and i've been in boarding school 5 hours away from home for the past 4 years. and let me tell you, it doesn't really get much easier as the years go by. I mean, you DO get used to feeling sad more often (you eventually find things that help you get over anxious moments and help calm you down), but it still very much is painful. i never regretted the decision i consciously made, and that was the main reason why i never gave up. my school does not offer anything like a welfare program, but the "boarders" community is supportive enough. what you said about the door being closed shut after you family says goodbye and being left all by your self is really something i can totally relate to. and the worst part is that it happens a few times a year- it's like ripping a bandage off aver and over again. BUT You'll get through it! Be strong when you feel alone, think about the amazing things you receive in turn for your sacrifice, think about other things as much as possible and talk to your friends about it, they re prob going through the same :) Lots of hugs from me :)
Wow, I can't believe people thought cooking was a waste of time! It can be super therapeutic, plus its hard to be productive if you don't eat well. In future, I think it would be cool if you did a vlog of a single day that showed how you typically schedule your time (so maybe with the time as a subtitle), as opposed to across a week! Or perhaps some of your favourite places to study, if you like to go to the library or venture around out of your room to work. Happy new year!
And yes revision tips video on work and motivation. Also how you manage to enjoy what your working on as Cambridge is said to horrendously difficult in terms of work. And how to revise for finals would all be good stuff for a video
I loooove your videos and idk if anyone has commented on this yet but, when it comes to being hungry, I feel(felt) it too. When you're in lecture even if you're nt actively paying attention, your brain is still gathering some info and, in that process, copious amounts of glucose are consumed cause that's what makes your body and mainly your brain work. To ensure you have enough energy, even if you're not paying attention, you're brain is already producing the "I'm hungry" signal, meaning it knows that you are in a learning environment because you once (or multiple times or all the time) payed really close attention and consumed a lot on energy (aka glucose that you get through foods). When it comes to being on campus, it's all about environment. You're at uni, you're brain KNOWS that and you study at uni and, therefore it is always aware that there is a possibility you will spend a generous amount of reserves and you're brain is like: I want my reserves, I don't like working on fumes (think of this the following way: in cars, an "alarm" goes off JUST before you reach reserve, meaning you have to go get fuel. same thing with your body except the reserves are bigger). Plus, if your body is constantly getting new glucose while it's working, it doesn't have to go get it from the reserves, therefore consuming energy. Hope this was easy to understand... Keep up the good work!! (Also, the reason you barely got sick was from all the vitamins in you GOOD food!! You do well to your body and it will preform good! As well as those runs in the cold helped you immune system a lot!) Sorry about the long comment...
Hi Holly! I'm a fresher at Jesus college, Cambridge this year! I felt exactly the same during my first term so it is cool to hear that others feel the same too :)
I moved out of home, across countries, continents and hemispheres to go to uni. I know how hard it is but it gets a bit busier every time you say goodbye. It's great to see you being realistic about this and soon it will become the norm. I'm always hungry at uni, I've found that smaller meals help with lots of healthy snacking in between because I can't get by on only three big meals a day! You should see the amount of food I take with my everywhere hahaha. Have you thought of cooking in bulk? I know taking a break is good and important but it must be tiring to do a whole meal everyday!
yay a new video!! it'd be nice if you could make a video on how you study (not just for alevels), how you motivate yourself to stay on top of your work & how you manage your time! I'm not an early riser and i usually take 1 hour (sometimes 2) after i wake up to feel like i can properly function, so i dont feel as productive :( but i get really motivated when i see your videos tho so i will always watch your videos while im eating breakfast! stay healthy! xx
Nice, honest expression. Thanks. I just look back on my daughter's time at Cam, aware of how brutal the work load can be, in particular with the internal pressure that Cantabrigians put on themselves. At times, it's very hard to be an achiever.
i started university this year and i ended up going home after five days because i was so homesick and wasn't getting any sleep. I'm re-staring again next year so hopefully i can get through it this time. My university have people you can talk to all through the night, which is great, so i often spent the nights i didn't sleep with them
Could you do a video where you talk through some of the work that your doing for your course? it would be great to see an example essay or supervision work :)
What makes Cambridge work so difficult? Whenever I ask Cambridge students what their "work" consists of, they always tell me about their weekly supervision essays. Is that literally the only piece of independent work you have to do? I'm asking this because no one else has ever mentioned any sort of independent work apart from these 3,500 word weekly essays. Thank you.
It depends on the subject what the work consists of. Generally its difficult simply because of the large quantity of work - whether thats reading, essays or problem sheets. I do law at Oxford and workload is similar to Cambridge. 2 essays a week and 1/2 tutorials/supervisions a week for 8 weeks of term, plus lectures. In tutorials you have to present and argue your essay. Each essay requires 2-4 days reading, 1 day writing. I work from about 9 until 9pm (with a few breaks for lunch, gym, socialising). Then in Oxford we have exams at the start of every term, so the 6 week holidays are spent revising or catching up on work.
Rachel Garwood thanks! It's law that I'm looking at Cambridge for, so this is helpful stuff. What exactly does the "4 days reading" time entail? How many pages would you estimate? Also, did you develop some sort of technique in terms of getting through the meat of text and compressing it to bitesize chunks? Thanks in advance.
I have been watching your videos throughout my applying process and they have been really helpful. Just want to ask you how did you keep yourself so organised? I am just being lazy if I have no work and I eat loads of snacks every day!!! TT
This is such a great and honest video! I was wondering, how many times a week do you so rowing? I am in year 9 and do rowing 5 times a week in my school :)
✨👌🏻me too , balance is so crucial and important. today Sunday I really wanted to get out and get more done but my body wasn't I was tired and sore from the whole week of activities. , So eventually my hyperactivity did calm down and I've started to relax and feel really good being at home resting and watching nice videos like this ! ✨🍉 :)
Hey, I really like your channel as I feel I can relate a bit.. I also just started uni this year studying law and I'm a vegetarian that only uses cruelty free products... you've inspired me to start my own channel so if you would check it out that would mean so much ❤xxx
Something i would love to see is a time lapse of your work, your phone should have a time lapse mode and if you could video the amount of work you do and how many pages that would be awesome!
It'd be cool to see your study schedule, and the way you arrange it to include personal time, exercise, cooking, dancing, etc. xx love your stuff!
I had really bad homesickness when I first went away to college too and for anyone else dealing with it, the best tool is distraction, distraction, distraction! Find anything to do or even just get out for a walk even if you don't feel like it...anything to get out of your own head. Eventually the new place starts to feel as comfortable as home, and I had my four best years at college!!!
This is so inspiring to hear you speak so honestly about you experiences, I felt the exact same way when I started boarding school (I'm off to uni next year). From my experience it does get better, and each term it's easier and easier to settle back in. You're not a wuss for crying, every cries, whether or not they admit it! An a level revision tips video would be brilliant by the way! xxxx
I started university 8 years ago now- but that feeling of being left in my room in halls is still fresh in my memory. I remember being absolutely terrified. The best thing to do is just get involved in everything that university has to offer (like you have :)).
showing how you make your notes in your vlogs would be great
I started university this year too and I totally know how you felt - I was a wreck from homesickness for the first couple of weeks and it honestly made me want to drop out, like I'd just sit in my room and cry for ages lmao. I'm so glad you settled in (and I eventually did too). I talked to a mentor at my university too and it helped me so much!!! Hope the next term goes okay for you xx
Could you maybe film some of the healthy snacks you eat! That would be really useful xx
I hated first few months of university, I got very homesick. You are right though, you will settle in eventually if you keep at it.
You sound like you had exactally the same type of freshers week as i did. I'm now in 4th year at uni doing chemistry and I always look back now and laugh at myself, but as you've already seen it gets better! and to the hungry thing, I am with you on that one. I think it's because you're either actually hungry, procrastinating hunger, or being either more physically and/or mentally active.
I can totally relate to being hungry all the time at uni! All my flatmates experienced it too
Happy new year! Can u do a college tour when u go back? xx
Wow Cambridge sounds so tough! I'm a second year Literature student at Hertfordshire (you've probably never even heard of it hahahaha) and I respect you sooo much as your first semester at Cambridge seems to have been so much more intense than my whole uni experience to date. You should be so proud of yourself! X
I moved to uni in September 2015 and was so incredibly homesick, but it eventually got better and I finally felt settled by around the end of first year, I'm now in my second semester of second year and so glad I hung on :)
Great, brave and honest video and so,so important - think it will comfort many who are struggling initially with uni. It's so common and yet 'hidden'/not spoken about enough, which can make people feel worse as they then put pressure on themselves to have ' the best years of their life'!. You seem to have a fab perspective (work/life balance). Good luck for when you return after the holidays :-)
I would love to do biological natural sciences at Cambridge, do you think you could explain a bit about what you've studied so far in more detail? I'm just really interested to know what it's like!
Yes I can't wait for your next video! I'd love to hear your revision tips!!! Good luck with your next term!
happy new year! i hope 2017 is the year you and i and all of us grow and achieve the success we want! and i look forward to go through every week to watch your vlogs
I would love to see a 'What I eat in a day' vlog, rather than a vlog that stretches out across the whole week and only shows some of your meals. I would really love to see everything you eat across 1 day
i'm almost 18 and i've been in boarding school 5 hours away from home for the past 4 years. and let me tell you, it doesn't really get much easier as the years go by. I mean, you DO get used to feeling sad more often (you eventually find things that help you get over anxious moments and help calm you down), but it still very much is painful. i never regretted the decision i consciously made, and that was the main reason why i never gave up. my school does not offer anything like a welfare program, but the "boarders" community is supportive enough. what you said about the door being closed shut after you family says goodbye and being left all by your self is really something i can totally relate to. and the worst part is that it happens a few times a year- it's like ripping a bandage off aver and over again.
BUT
You'll get through it! Be strong when you feel alone, think about the amazing things you receive in turn for your sacrifice, think about other things as much as possible and talk to your friends about it, they re prob going through the same :)
Lots of hugs from me :)
Wow, I can't believe people thought cooking was a waste of time! It can be super therapeutic, plus its hard to be productive if you don't eat well. In future, I think it would be cool if you did a vlog of a single day that showed how you typically schedule your time (so maybe with the time as a subtitle), as opposed to across a week! Or perhaps some of your favourite places to study, if you like to go to the library or venture around out of your room to work. Happy new year!
Hey just wanted to let you know that the audio has this funny creaky noise thing going on...? I think it's a problem with the camera or is it just me?
I think it's possibly the camera autofocusing :)
And yes revision tips video on work and motivation. Also how you manage to enjoy what your working on as Cambridge is said to horrendously difficult in terms of work. And how to revise for finals would all be good stuff for a video
I loooove your videos and idk if anyone has commented on this yet but, when it comes to being hungry, I feel(felt) it too. When you're in lecture even if you're nt actively paying attention, your brain is still gathering some info and, in that process, copious amounts of glucose are consumed cause that's what makes your body and mainly your brain work.
To ensure you have enough energy, even if you're not paying attention, you're brain is already producing the "I'm hungry" signal, meaning it knows that you are in a learning environment because you once (or multiple times or all the time) payed really close attention and consumed a lot on energy (aka glucose that you get through foods).
When it comes to being on campus, it's all about environment. You're at uni, you're brain KNOWS that and you study at uni and, therefore it is always aware that there is a possibility you will spend a generous amount of reserves and you're brain is like: I want my reserves, I don't like working on fumes (think of this the following way: in cars, an "alarm" goes off JUST before you reach reserve, meaning you have to go get fuel. same thing with your body except the reserves are bigger). Plus, if your body is constantly getting new glucose while it's working, it doesn't have to go get it from the reserves, therefore consuming energy.
Hope this was easy to understand...
Keep up the good work!!
(Also, the reason you barely got sick was from all the vitamins in you GOOD food!! You do well to your body and it will preform good! As well as those runs in the cold helped you immune system a lot!)
Sorry about the long comment...
Hi Holly! I'm a fresher at Jesus college, Cambridge this year! I felt exactly the same during my first term so it is cool to hear that others feel the same too :)
YES! I would love to see a revision tips video next week :)
Yay! I've been waiting for this xx got myself a tea and some chocolate totally ready to watch this.
I moved out of home, across countries, continents and hemispheres to go to uni. I know how hard it is but it gets a bit busier every time you say goodbye. It's great to see you being realistic about this and soon it will become the norm.
I'm always hungry at uni, I've found that smaller meals help with lots of healthy snacking in between because I can't get by on only three big meals a day! You should see the amount of food I take with my everywhere hahaha. Have you thought of cooking in bulk? I know taking a break is good and important but it must be tiring to do a whole meal everyday!
yay a new video!! it'd be nice if you could make a video on how you study (not just for alevels), how you motivate yourself to stay on top of your work & how you manage your time! I'm not an early riser and i usually take 1 hour (sometimes 2) after i wake up to feel like i can properly function, so i dont feel as productive :(
but i get really motivated when i see your videos tho so i will always watch your videos while im eating breakfast!
stay healthy! xx
You should do a video about how to meet people at university and joining clubs and societies!!!!
Nice, honest expression. Thanks. I just look back on my daughter's time at Cam, aware of how brutal the work load can be, in particular with the internal pressure that Cantabrigians put on themselves. At times, it's very hard to be an achiever.
can u please do tips on how to manage school and dance :))
i started university this year and i ended up going home after five days because i was so homesick and wasn't getting any sleep. I'm re-staring again next year so hopefully i can get through it this time. My university have people you can talk to all through the night, which is great, so i often spent the nights i didn't sleep with them
Rachael Hood which uni?
Stirling University in Scotland
chand patel Stirling uni in scotland
where's your jumper from please?i love it!!x
I love your videos! I might bump into you because I am coming to Cambridge on a shadowing scheme this month! I can't wait !!!!!
I really love your Cambridge vlogs. Please keep on doing then :)
Can you run through what sort of work you are given x
I would like to see a video of you dancing or at dance class! I love your videos! I'm a freshman at a university as well!
Do you know any international students? I love your videos by the way, they´re really informative and quite inspiring. xx
Could you do a video where you talk through some of the work that your doing for your course? it would be great to see an example essay or supervision work :)
Oooh you should vlog when you go shopping that would be really interesting haha
Did she just pull out her extensions haha! Brill, girl you're so real, love it.
What makes Cambridge work so difficult? Whenever I ask Cambridge students what their "work" consists of, they always tell me about their weekly supervision essays. Is that literally the only piece of independent work you have to do? I'm asking this because no one else has ever mentioned any sort of independent work apart from these 3,500 word weekly essays. Thank you.
It depends on the subject what the work consists of. Generally its difficult simply because of the large quantity of work - whether thats reading, essays or problem sheets.
I do law at Oxford and workload is similar to Cambridge. 2 essays a week and 1/2 tutorials/supervisions a week for 8 weeks of term, plus lectures. In tutorials you have to present and argue your essay. Each essay requires 2-4 days reading, 1 day writing. I work from about 9 until 9pm (with a few breaks for lunch, gym, socialising).
Then in Oxford we have exams at the start of every term, so the 6 week holidays are spent revising or catching up on work.
Rachel Garwood thanks! It's law that I'm looking at Cambridge for, so this is helpful stuff. What exactly does the "4 days reading" time entail? How many pages would you estimate? Also, did you develop some sort of technique in terms of getting through the meat of text and compressing it to bitesize chunks? Thanks in advance.
Cambridge sounds so good for support and extra curricular stuff!
I have been watching your videos throughout my applying process and they have been really helpful. Just want to ask you how did you keep yourself so organised? I am just being lazy if I have no work and I eat loads of snacks every day!!! TT
I relate to feelings when I first moved in, I didnt fully settle till about week 5
What about every week you do one vlog on what you ate on that day? like Anna saccones what I ate Wednesdays ? xx
Hey, hope you've had a good NYE
This is such a great and honest video! I was wondering, how many times a week do you so rowing? I am in year 9 and do rowing 5 times a week in my school :)
could you please put more of dance/ballet in your vlogs thanks
big thumbs up for education content
At unvisity the freshers flu is common and you get hungry all the time
I have some A Level mocks when I go back to school!
Which college are you at in Cambridge? X
I love your vlogs 😀
Please tell me where you got your jumper from?! I need it in my life!
I just Googled it... is it from Etsy?
✨👌🏻me too , balance is so crucial and important.
today Sunday I really wanted to get out and get more done but my body wasn't I was tired and sore from the whole week of activities. ,
So eventually my hyperactivity did calm down and I've started to relax and feel really good being at home resting and watching nice videos like this !
✨🍉 :)
Could you show us how you make your microwave chips? :D
hey mate how did your application to Cambridge go?
im guessing it didn't go well....
Unknown Gamer Hey, no. I got in! I only heard back yesterday, though, heheh
Well done man ! Are you going to vlog your experience, please do i would love to see medicine at cambridge?
Anyways what grades do you need to secure your place?
What if don't you have any particular extracurricular interests
like sport what should you join?
How many contact hours do you have each week?
How would you compare the work load to that of a levels?? Just for some perspective
The work load is quite a bit more intense, but since you're doing the thing you enjoy it's not too bad
you've got a really unique look.
Have you done any exam yet?
where's your bed from?
what's your a level result? if u don't mind
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What ethnicity is this girl she looks asian eastern european with bite of jewish
YES GCSE TIPS!!!!! PLEASE
You kinda look like Noah Cyrus
ikrrrr
but she is like a prettier version of her
Indeed
Hey, I really like your channel as I feel I can relate a bit.. I also just started uni this year studying law and I'm a vegetarian that only uses cruelty free products... you've inspired me to start my own channel so if you would check it out that would mean so much ❤xxx