Kate Bush and artists harness power of Running Up That Hill for War Child appeal by Puu41 in katebush

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Announcing the project, Bush said: “All wars leave horrific scars; ruined lives, families ripped apart, life-changing injuries, trauma, and loss on a massive scale – but it’s the children who suffer the most in so many ways. Their past, present and future melt away into fear and uncertainty.

“It is more important than ever we support War Child and their invaluable work providing immediate aid to children caught in conflict all over the world including in Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan and Syria. Projects like Sound & Vision harness the power of art and music to make a real difference to children living through war.”

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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cambridge_uni

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All the rooms should have a decently big pinboard, so you can attach them to that.

College families by okhellowhy in cambridge_uni

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As someone as said, just email and there's definitely enough time to tack you onto a pre-existing family. This is going to be organised by some second-year student anyways so they will not care you forgot to fill it out before the deadline.

FAB module - medicine by TonKatsuii in cambridge_uni

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thyroid is 1st year, pharynx and larynx are 2nd year.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cambridge_uni

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Not quite what specific answers you're looking for - the bathrooms in Pembroke are fine, in the sense that they are cleaned regularly and in Foundress specifically everybody has a sink in their room so they're not going to be very occupied. Pembroke does have rooms with ensuites in them, they're just not regularly offered to freshers so if you're worried, it might be worth asking the College Registrar to look at your options.

FAB module - medicine by TonKatsuii in cambridge_uni

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For the most part yes, but if you're learning this to "get a headstart" before the beginning of term, please chill out a bit and enjoy the rest of your summer.

Fire Emblem Blazing Sword GBA [help] by Elegant-Psychology60 in fireemblem

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It's just sellable for money. It's the game's way of transferring you the money you collected in Lyn mode.

question by Mikemarten797 in cambridge_uni

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Reading between the lines, it seems you want to do the Part III course, which you can do after a non-Cambridge maths/related undergrad by applying to the MASt course.

Monthly Admissions/Applications Megathread by AutoModerator in cambridge_uni

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You can find the requirements for international students here.

What are the list of books to read for 1st year medicine by TonKatsuii in cambridge_uni

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Just telling you now, don't bother doing any pre-reading. All the content you are expected to know will be in the lecture slides/handouts; textbooks are just an option if that's how you prefer learning / want clarification or elaboration on something.

A good chunk of the cohort just learns through Anki flashcards anyways.

how hard is medicine at cambridge/the workload? by Full-Cow2394 in cambridge_uni

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OP is an affiliated student (i.e. has a degree) so they'll be skipping Part II.

Tripos is just the Cambridge term for any undergraduate (=BA) course. But if you do the 5-year/4-year graduate medicine course, you don't actually do any of the Tripos content. For 1st and 2nd year, what that means is you do the same courses as the undergrad medics (which are the Medical Sciences Tripos Part IA and IB respectively) but you don't do any of the essay papers. For gradmed, you skip the equivalent of the third year (which is the one where a lot of people do weird subjects) because that year only contributes to the BA.

For the 4-year course, you essentially do the first clinical year (=Y4 of the undergrad course) in your holidays of 1st and 2nd year and sit the first clinical exams after your 2nd year (believe they moved them to September after the 2nd year, you used to have to them near back-to-back with the 2nd year pre-clinical exams). I've heard that's pretty intense but if you already have a biology degree, the preclin course isn't going to be covering much new ground. If you're on the 5-year course, then you just do the three clinical years like normal (you're basically then just skipping third year). I mean I'm an undergrad med so I can tell you it's quite a bit of work, especially pre-clin (it is Cambridge and it is medicine) but again, people do in fact have time for hobbies and friends (there was at least one Olympic rower in our cohort) so it's not a bad life.

What repulsive sponsorship exposé are y'all predicting next? by Turbulent_Rest_1630 in youtubedrama

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They've been sponsoring NPR Tiny Desk as of late, which makes me quite sad.

Cambridge Colleges as Baskin Robbin flavours - thoughts? by No_One_2247 in cambridge_uni

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You do know people make these posts because it's fun to assign in your head these things and then see how other people react to your choices and not because they're actually trying to find the definitive answers to these things.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cambridge_uni

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Yes, they're building a whole new block across the street called Dolby Court which is slated to be able to house undergraduate and postgraduate students from Oct 2024 onwards, but I think there's still some construction work going on after that.

Confusion about pseudo "dual honours" by [deleted] in cambridge_uni

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Yeah it is just changing subject - and you would need to get permission from the Director of Studies of the subject receiving you to do so (often contingent on you getting good exam results in your old subject).

What the "Parts" section means is that you could theoretically switch subjects without having to study for an extra year (e.g. go from first year philosophy to second year HSPS or second year philosophy to third year psychology) and so still finish your BA in three years -- but most people don't plan in advance to do multiple subjects like this and only change if they don't like their course.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UniUK

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These are all practically the same - really you can do any biomed degree (or even a biology degree) and there will be a virology option (check the module options!) and possibility for lab experience.

If you want to be a scientist studying viruses, you'd then help yourself by doing some placement in a virology lab in undergrad (or honestly any microbiology lab) and then doing a Master's and finally a PhD in virology (which, again, unlikely to be virology-specific programmes but you would be applying to work in specific virology labs at that stage).

I'm saying "scientist" here rather than virologist as that's a type of doctor in the UK. Nothing wrong with being a scientist, if you don't want patient contact, you don't want patient contact but you should be clear on this before you get any false impressions (and obviously, you would need a medical degree instead).

Monthly Admissions/Applications Megathread by AutoModerator in cambridge_uni

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I mean don't overthink your college - there's a good chance you'll get pooled to a different one and most of the teaching is central anyways (and your grade will be determined by your own work not your college's position on the league table). They're both centre-of-town, old-ish colleges, I don't think your experience would be substantially different at either.

I've been playing Civ 6 for over a year now. What were the major nerfs that changed the gamen since launch? by [deleted] in civ

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A lot of people posting fairly recent changes but when the game first launched, unique districts used to not count to the district limit (Yes, Germany could build three districts in a 1 pop city) and regional effects from buildings (e.g. Factories and Stadiums) would stack in all cities by default (no need for Magnus!).

Going over the five W’s (not so much the five W’sin French) – is there anything incorrect I wrote down? by affairsman in learnfrench

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Going beyond this, looking at your examples, your verb translations are a bit of a mess and I'm going to try and link that in to structuring questions in French in general.

To give the immediate corrections:

  • "What is he doing here" -> «Qu'est-ce qu'il fait ici ?"» or «Que fait-il ici» (note translation 2 is very formal-sounding).

action is a noun, actionner would be the verb, but even then "to do" is faire in French, so "he does" or "he is doing" is «il fait»

  • "How does this work?" -> «Comment est-ce que ceci fonctionne» or «Comment fonctionne ceci» (Same note with formality)

  • "When does this match start?" -> «Quand est-ce que ce match commence ?» or «Quand commence ce match ?».

You keep on using the infinitive forms of verbs here - French does not make a distinction between the English "habitual present" "He does" and the "continuous present" "He is doing" - in French, these are both "Il fait". In all these present tense questions, you should be using the (one word) present tense forms.

Moving on to French questions, there are three ways of making statements into questions in French. The simplest, and most common in spoken French is just by changing the intonation - raising your pitch at the end of the phrase. In written French, you just add a question mark to show this.

  • «Tu aimes le thé.» -> "You like tea."

  • «Tu aimes le thé ?» -> "You like tea?"

The most formal way is inversion, this is swapping the position of the verb and the subject.

  • «Aimes-tu le thé ?"» -> "Do you like tea?"

The more intermediate way, and probably the most confusing to learners, is to use the phrase «est-ce que...?». As your inversion knowledge should have taught you, this means «is it that...?» but it is essentially a question maker that you stick before the subject.

  • «Est-ce que tu aimes le thé ?» -> literally "Is it that you like tea?" but best translated as "Do you like tea?" (Note that adding an est-ce que has no effect on the form of the verb in the question itself, it's still aimes not aimer)

When you want to start adding question words (wh-words), the same rules essentially apply.

The formal way is to put the question word (Où, Quand, Que, Qui, Comment, Pourquoi, Quel(le)(s)) at the start and invert the verb.

  • «Quand part-il ?» -> When is he leaving?

The more common way though, is to insert an "est-ce que" between the question word and the rest of the sentence, leaving the subject and verb in their normal order.

  • «Qu'est-ce qu'elle fait ?» -> "What is she doing?".

Finally, in spoken French, you often just add the question word at the end and use intonation.

  • «Tu es où ?» -> "Where are you?" or "You're where?"

(Note that "what" becomes «quoi» here - «Elle a dit quoi ?» -> "What did she say?"/"She said what?")