The admissions tutor at Cambridge has revealed that the university pays scant attention to personal statements. Duncan Robinson explains why this is a good thing and how university admissions as a whole are completely flawed.
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Archive for May, 2009
Cambridge ignores UCAS personal statements
The carnivore diet: Two weeks of meat
What happens when you eat just meat for two weeks? This. You get bloated. You don't shit and you become very, very poor.
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Why do exams suck? You have 90 minutes. Your time starts now!
Imagine the situation: you've just started a cushy graduate job and your new boss marches in -
"Right. I want a report on the results from the last quarter. I want it in three hours, done from memory, and written by hand on that wobbly single person table over there."
Not going...
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£83,000 for a degree? It’s possible – but only if you really try…
Lovely headline in the Telegraph today:
Parents will need fund of £83,000 to pay for child's university fees.
Wow. That's a lot of moolah. It's also bollocks.
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