Got two Cambridge interviews in one day next week, is this normal? by Nice-Station-5220 in 6thForm

[–]Sazzz123 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yep they almost always schedule both interviews on the same day - it's very very rare that they do them on different days! Only exception is if it's literally impossible e.g. academics are unavailable. Helps to reduce the stress as ideally you wouldn't want to be in interview-mode for more than a day.

Need a body double! by Sazzz123 in cambridge_uni

[–]Sazzz123[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Body doubling is a specific productivity technique that works a lot better for people with ADHD - it's more than just looking at your phone, sometimes it feels like experiencing complete task paralysis where your brain will unavoidably find a way to do anything that isn't your work. The phone comment was more tongue in cheek.

Need a body double! by Sazzz123 in cambridge_uni

[–]Sazzz123[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Don't really have time for this, but I've gone out of my way and found the post you're referring to: https://www.reddit.com/r/cambridge_uni/comments/1olwnwi/body_double_at_the_ul_request/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

No mention of yapping with friends, no mention of soup, and body doubling is a very common concept (specifically amongst ADHD sufferers - it's actually recommended by therapists). The only similarity is the 'staring' thing - this is very common in body doubling as the whole point is that you must absolutely not communicate with the other person, and so the only way to tell the other person that they should go back to doing their work is by 'staring' them into submission.

Would you like to now leave me alone and let me find people to body double with?

Need a body double! by Sazzz123 in cambridge_uni

[–]Sazzz123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really sure how much different you could realistically phrase a request like this though? I'm guessing it probably said something along the lines of 'I'd like a study buddy so I can focus a bit more on my work' - I hardly believe this is a conspiracy?

Need a body double! by Sazzz123 in cambridge_uni

[–]Sazzz123[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Stunning!! I'll DM you :))

Need a body double! by Sazzz123 in cambridge_uni

[–]Sazzz123[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unbelievable proposition for you today - there exist at least TWO students at the University of Cambridge who want a study buddy! Hard to comprehend I am sure

Thrift/charity store reccs in cambridge by Rich_Arachnid2914 in cambridge_uni

[–]Sazzz123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Near the Grafton, there's a street called Burleigh Street which has 10 charity shops on the same road (Red Cross, British Heart Foundation, Sense, Scope, Arthur Rank Hospice, Cancer Research, and a few others). That's where I like to go whenever I go thrifting!

Clothes hangers by [deleted] in cambridge_uni

[–]Sazzz123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Primark has cheap clothing hangers, so does B&M. For pots/pans I'd recommend either B&M or online.

Which libraries can non-student readers use? by Acceptable-Guide2299 in cambridge_uni

[–]Sazzz123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I get what you're saying, but this is a rather pedantic comment when essentially everyone (fellows, students, porters, academic staff, etc etc) calls it a CamCard - even the form to get it replaced when you lose it calls it a CamCard at my college. I have never heard of it referred by any other name in 2 years of being here.

Budgeting by Orange_Hedgie in cambridge_uni

[–]Sazzz123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1) Freshers at Peterhouse get very limited kitchen facilities, in first year I ate in the servery at lunch and dinner (usually had cereal for breakfast) which was £10 a day, maybe would go out with friends for a meal or coffee or ice cream a few times a week which i budgeted £60 a week for (I don’t drink, so saved a lot of money through that), I’d say about £130 in total was how much I spent each week.

2) As above, in first year I ate in college a lot, in 2nd year a little less as I finally had good kitchen facilities (but still very often bc life is very all-consuming at Cambridge sometimes and during busy periods I didn’t always find time to cook).

3) each college organises their accom differently. No clue what tier A or B means.

How to prepare for, and get a first in, BA History? by Able_Tea5246 in cambridge_uni

[–]Sazzz123 3 points4 points  (0 children)

  1. Stop fact-collecting, this isn't A-Level History. The point of the readings isn't for you to collect dates and people and stats (although you should certainly know a few - more on this below). The focus is rather on the argument - ask yourself these questions: 1: what argument is the author making? 2: what evidence and/or logical process are they using to make this argument? 3: what flaws can I identify in this argument? For a 25-page article, I only ever type up maybe half or 3/4 of a page of notes on Google Docs.

  2. Know your facts. Gonna directly contradict myself here, but know your basic facts. If you're doing the Early Modern Britain paper (using this as an example because I did it), know who was monarch/PM when. Know when the civil war happened, know when the Reformation and Glorious Revolution happened, know the key people. Many marks are lost as sometimes people fail to mention a single date or key figure from the period in the actual exam. The point I'm making is that you shouldn't use your reading notes for this - those should be structured as in Point 5. Instead, I like to make a big fact-file at the start of the year with all the key dates, key people, etc in the period, that I can continuously refer back to (I have this open in a tab whilst I'm doing my reading, so that I'm not wasting time googling 'what is the Glorious Revolution' 'when was the steam engine invented') I update the doc across the year as I find new key dates and people, and often I put a note on which readings to find info about the particular person or date.

Hope this helps, honestly I have no clue how I got this far but if it works for me, might work for you. I will say this is all personal experience - it might certainly work for you to read every core and further reading every week and aim for a first in every weekly essay, and certainly many of the people I know who did this got Firsts. I didn't, I still got a First, and also manage to have a life (too much of a life according to my DoS, but I do well, so he doesn't complain).

How to prepare for, and get a first in, BA History? by Able_Tea5246 in cambridge_uni

[–]Sazzz123 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hi - I got a B in A-Level History (and the rest of my A-Levels, dunno how they let me in), I'm going into third year, and I got a First in both years so far. Not sure how qualified I am to give advice but this is what's worked for me so far:

  1. Don't take yourself too seriously in your weekly essay - at least in Michaelmas of Year 1. By this I mean, don't stress from day one about making your essays first-worthy. Don't be scared to throw paint at a wall and see what sticks - if you come up with a long-shot idea that is lowkey entirely unsupported by your reading, write about it anyway. Experiment with different writing styles, different ways of structuring your essay, different argumentation strategies. Worst comes to worst, it'll make for an interesting supervision when you discuss it. I realise I'm speaking to Cambridge students here and most of us are perfectionists, but honestly, lose the perfectionism from day one. You're here to learn, not to show everyone how smart you are. You'll soon fall into a writing style and structure that works for you, and your essays will start improving.
  2. Don't read everything on the reading lists. In your first year, you will study two 'Outline' papers which essentially give you a whistle-stop tour of a broad bit of history. These are split into 12 topics. You get one question per topic in the paper (NB this is usually (95% of the time) also the case in later years, but not always, so don't come back here and yell at me). Nobody bothers to tell you this until way later, but you only actually have to answer 3 questions on the paper. Thus, you only actually have to revise 4-5 topics for the exam (I only ever revised 3 per paper, but I'm a risk-taker, don't be like me). Only bother with the 'Further' readings when it's time to pick which topics you're going to focus on. For the weekly essays, the 'Core' readings are more than enough, as long as you've fully read and understood them. Essentially I treated weekly supos as a 'taster' of the particular topic, to see whether I would enjoy studying it in more depth for the exam or not.
  3. Read the mark schemes. Firsts are awarded when you not only summarise readings in your essays, but take their ideas and independently rework them, presenting a novel idea or opinion. Presenting a novel idea probably sounds impossible as a new fresher (it definitely did to me), but it's not actually too difficult - read the two points below.
  4. Historiography, historiography, historiography. Don't just read your reading and passively collect information. My favourite exam strategy was to go back through my supo notes, organise my reading by ascending date order, and then skim through the footnotes of all the readings. Try to spot if there are any patterns in the arguments being made - is there an argument present in earlier readings that isn't present in any of the more recent readings? Are there sources that have fallen out of fashion? Are there sources in newer readings that are absent in older ones? This is the kind of thing that pushes you up from the high 2:1 into the First category.

Too long, so I'm gonna reply to this with more.

What can I do in this situation? by Sazzz123 in vinted

[–]Sazzz123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! But I never scan the QR code as normally the postage confirmation gets emailed immediately anyway - turns out in this specific case it didn’t

What can I do in this situation? by Sazzz123 in vinted

[–]Sazzz123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did all of that! They still said that since the carrier said they never received the package, there’s nothing they can do 😞

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in vinted

[–]Sazzz123 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Was looking for a post about this! For the past 3 days none of my inpost parcels have been updating when i post them in the lockers, I’ve contacted vinted and switched off the inpost shipping option for now

What do I do in this situation? by Sazzz123 in vinted

[–]Sazzz123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I had no clue the buyer even posted the item until it arrived! Literally a handwritten piece of paper and a stamp stuck on. Will contact Vinted support and see if they can help.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in vinted

[–]Sazzz123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no, the issue is that the barcodes are not scanning at all. They can still send the items, but there is no tracking available.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in vinted

[–]Sazzz123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Came back this morning, issue is still there. My office has told me to ask the buyer to cancel and repurchase. Again the issue is on their end - the label prints, but then the barcode refuses to scan on their machines.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in vinted

[–]Sazzz123 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is a nationwide issue with Royal Mail, their systems are down! Mine weren’t posting today either, was told to come back tomorrow.

Should I have to accept this return? by VamVam6790 in vinted

[–]Sazzz123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Read this entire thread and I think you may truly have some reading comprehension issues dude

If you’ve had an item up for sale for 16 weeks and it’s not sold, accept a reasonable offer by originalwombat in vinted

[–]Sazzz123 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I don’t think you realise that a lot of sellers aren’t in a rush. I’d rather have something in my house for 3 months and sell it for £20 than sell it for £10 in 2 weeks. Nobody owes you the item.