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Cambridge University: A Tour with Reiss Akhtar

Hi, I'm Reiss, I'm a fresher at Cambridge and I'm here to take you on a tour. Today I'm gonna take you down Trumpington Street. I'm gonna take you around some of the colleges. We'll go past Queens, we'll go past Caius. And just for good measure, we're gonna have some lunch as well. Right now, we are a Grantor Place. So at Grantor Place, you can either pop into a pub, if you want a bev, or you can just come and hang out with friends here. We were just in Fitzbillies, which is basically everyone's go to for a good cake and coffee. I actually got you guys a toasty bun from there, which they're really famed for. (Hallelujah Chorus) If you still want it. I first heard about Cambridge through my secondary school. They really encouraged some of us to apply. Then I came on an open day to Corpus Christi in year ten. I fell in love with it straight away. Didn't know what I wanted to study, didn't know what colleges were, but I just knew that I wanted to be there. Cambridge is split into collegiate system, where the courses don't differ between different places, but you're put into a specific hub or community and that is called your college. So for me, I am at Caius. Caius is short for Gonville and Caius, but if you call it Gonville and Caius, then you're like an outsider. I didn't actually pick Caius; I was pooled to Caius. I originally applied to Downing. The pooling system is basically, if a college doesn't have space for you, or they think that you would be a better fit at a different college, then they'll put your application into a pool and the other colleges are free to choose you. Pooling isn't like not getting in. It just means that Cambridge care about where you are and they want you to be at the best college for you. I think my favorite thing about Caius is that they value eating together. So all of us really really enjoy going to hall everyday, sitting together, and having a chat. It's not true that we don't have proper kitchens at Cambridge. It usually depends on your accommodations. So, at Caius, we have hobs, fridges, microwaves, toasters, all the fun stuff. I've gotten quite involved in student life at Caius. So I'm the freshers' rep, which means I represent the first year and organize freshers' week for the incoming freshers. A marriage formal is basically like the officialization of your college marriages. And college marriages are basically, you propose to someone in your year, you become college married, and you get assigned a fresher next year that you mentor. So you have a lot of opportunity to meet people outside of your college though, through your subject, whether that be through lectures or through workshops. So this term, I have classes on Cymbeline with people from various colleges. I study English literature. I think the most interesting discussion I've had this year was probably about the effect that Donald Trump's had on LGBT rights. And that was interesting because we were doing medieval literature and somehow managed to make that work. I think Cambridge has made me more academically brave. I don't feel scared about saying what I'm interested in, about picking specific themes even if they're different than what everyone else is interested in. And I feel like that's translated into our personal lives, for a lot of us. So I basically live with my bag. Have a look inside. I have my laptop, which is basically my life, 'cause it has my entire degree on it. I have a play by Shakespeare called Cymbeline. So this term's faculty workshops are about this and it requires us to go through and do something called glossing. Not really sure what it is yet, but I'm hoping that I find out today. Got my umbrella, which is like a life-saver in Cambridge because you never know when it's gonna rain here. And I have a speaker because all good days require speakers, so I keep this on hand just in case. So we're gonna go past Queens and go to my accommodation. Yeah there's like loads of small really pretty streets here. Basically everywhere is an Instagram opportunity. Over here is Queens College, which is another college at Cambridge. And then just next to it is some of the accommodation for the students. Because every college offers the same courses, sometimes you'll be taught in different colleges. Only because each college has like different teams and pools of specialists in different fields. All the first years live just over there, so we'll go through there now and take a look. So this is West Road, which is packed full of students so, on your left here we have K Block, which is a Caius accommodation and I'll be living there next year. Just past that, we have the Caius first year accommodation, which is on the Harvey Court side. Past that is Sidgwick, which is where I said most of the lectures are, where the faculties are. So my English literature faculty's there. And if I go to English literature lectures, I'll be in Sidgwick. There's also a few cafés and a few places to work there. So as you can see, this is the center of town. Filled with tourists, which is quite annoying when you're like, running to library, but you'll learn that Cambridge is just very famous for the tourists. We'll take you down to Caius, which is just down there. And then some of our accommodation opposite. A lot of the colleges in the center of town are quite near each other and it was a bit weird at first because you think you're coming to a CE, they'd be spaced out, but like literally, Caius is there, and then two minutes down is Trinity. And then if you walk for another five minutes, you can find St. John's. Senate House is just here and basically, that building is used for graduations. So, no matter what college you go to, whether it be Queens or Kings, this is the place that you come to to graduate. So during your first moments as a freshers, you will most likely come to this place here. So the General Tailors Robemakers. You'll go there for all of your Cambridge stash. So if you want a Cambridge hoodie, if you want a Cambridge bow tie, don't know who would wear one, but if you want one, they have the option. Most of us though go there to get our gowns. This actually is the Caius gown. So what we'll go is, we'll go in and have a look at the kind of gowns that students wear. So usually you wear these to like formal events. So for Caius, if you have a formal dinner going on like Super Hall, which happens once a term and you'll wear your gown on top of usually a suit. These are most likely used for different black tie events as well, but specifically in college, if you go to something like a ball, you won't have to wear gowns. So these are mostly for college events. (upbeat music) This is Rose Crescent and Caius actually owns most of this street which means that we get the chance to live here, either in our second or third year. So there's this misconception that when you come to Cambridge and you enter a college, you'll live in the college the entire time. While some colleges let you live onsite, you don't spend your entire three years there typically. So colleges like Girton will have accommodations, but around Cambridge and Caius, for example, allow you to live in the rooms just above these shops and restaurants. We're gonna go to a place called Gardi's, which is our absolute favorite place in Cambridge. They do the best kabob here. There is some competition about where you go after a night out. You have the Van of Life, you have the Van of Death, which is conveniently opposite the Van of Life. And then, you have the Gardenia, which is our favorite. So here we are, this is Gardi's. They do probably the best honor in town, the best kabab, but, most importantly, they do the best chips that I've had here. Hiya. - Hello. - [Reiss] Can I have one serving of cheesy chips please? - Yeah. - Thank you. Oh, so you'll notice that, all along the walls of Gardi's, you have photos of people that have come here. So Gardi's is basically like a really nice community. So whenever you come in, they'll like pop a picture of you and then you'll get to be on the wall. These are my cheesy chips. I am honestly in bliss right now. This is the highlight of my day. (Hallelujah Chorus) They're so good. I'm so happy. So that is the tour. Thanks for joining me, I hope you enjoyed it. I'm gonna go and finish these off, so I'll see you around next time.

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Cambridge, England: Historic University Town

England's greatest universities, Oxford and Cambridge, have been rivals since the 1300s. We'll visit Oxford later. Each has the same basic heritage and design. No main campus -- instead, the many colleges are scattered throughout the charming town center. By catching one of the many guided town walks, you'll get an insider's look at an urban mix of what locals "town and gown." -In medieval Europe, it was the church that was in charge of higher education, and here in Cambridge, we have 31 colleges, all with the same design. You have a beautiful green court. Set around the court are buildings where the students eat, sleep, pray, and study. ♪♪ -Many colleges welcome the public to browse around. At their historic front gates, you'll find a porter's lodge. The porter delivers mail, monitors who comes and goes, and keeps people off the grass. Colleges have centuries of heritage, and you feel that in their exquisite libraries. Here in Corpus Christi's Parker Library, that college's literary treasures are proudly on display, such as letters from Anne Boleyn before husband Henry VIII lopped off her head and a first edition of Newton's groundbreaking treatise, "Principia Mathematica." The exclusive putting-green quality of the courtyard lawns is a huge deal here. Generally, only senior professors can walk on the courts, the centerpiece of each college campus. One of the powerhouse colleges at Cambridge is Kings, which has a central courtyard to match its esteemed reputation. The 500-year-old Kings College Chapel, built by Henrys VI through VIII, is England's best surviving example of late Gothic architecture. With its emphasis on vertical lines, it's called Perpendicular Gothic. This is the most impressive building in Cambridge, with the largest single span of vaulted roof anywhere -- 2,000 tons of glorious fan vaulting. ♪♪ Here, you can enjoy the most complete collection of original 16th-century Renaissance stained glass in existence. With the help of this closed captioning, handy if you can read Latin, you can wander through the entire Bible. And the "Adoration of the Magi," a masterpiece by Rubens, adorns the altar. Trinity College, just next door, was founded in 1546 by Henry VIII. It's the richest and biggest in town. Cambridge has produced nearly 100 Nobel Prize winners, and about 1/3 of them were Trinity graduates. The great mathematician Sir Isaac Newton, who both studied and taught at Trinity, famously clapped his hands and timed the echo to calculate the speed of sound. Huh, 1,120 feet per second or 761 miles per hour at this altitude. The colleges that face the Cam River each have garden-like backyards that combine to make the riverbank feel like a lush and exclusive park. A beloved Cambridge tradition is a romantic and graceful glide past these colleges in a traditional flat-bottomed punt. Skilled locals make the ride look effortless. -So this is Trinity College, and this is the Wren Library. -You can hire a boat to enjoy a witty narration by a student as you're pulled past fine college architecture. -Yeah, these are called the "Backs," the backs of the river. There's eight colleges along the river. So this area is called the Backs because, quite simply, it's the back of those colleges. The only way you can see the backs of these colleges is along the river, so the best way to see the backs of all the colleges is by punting. -Or, for a little levity and probably more exercise than you really want, why not rent one yourself?

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A Day In Cambridge

hello guys welcome back to my channel this week we're in Cambridge and I'm gonna show you around hopefully give you some ideas of things that you could see and do if you visit Cambridge anytime soon it's a beautiful town there's a lot of stuff to this so hopefully this can give you some ideas this video is in collaboration with Co Europe go here's a platform that makes charleen so much easier because through their app and their website you can compare em by different transfer options like buses trains planes etc they also have a Facebook page called the locals where you can maybe ask for advice if you're visiting someplace new I will leave all the links down below if you want to check them out I hope you enjoyed this video and it gives you some ideas if you have anything else you'd like to suggest leave it down below and yeah let's go ahead and show you Cameron this time we decided to travel by train and there's a direct connection between London and Kenbridge it runs very often and you can get there in less than an hour we use the go Europe to compare and purchase a ticket and it was super quick and easy and within two minutes we had booked a return trip and received a confirmation once we got off the train at Cambridge we walk towards Mill Road this tree is full of cute cafes and vintage stores and it's ideal if you fancy having a cup of coffee before you head out to explore we chose cafe blue sage for breakfast where we picked up the Turkish pastry and a panini that were delicious they had lots of amazing breakfast options most of them vegan or vegetarian and really cheap if you go to Mill Road I definitely recommend you visit irrelevant record it's a really cool cafe and it has a super retro record store in the basement after breakfast we headed out to my favorite place in Cambridge the botanical gardens the standard entrance cost six pounds and it's totally worth it if you're a big fan of plants like me especially the glass house range on our way to the center of town we stopped at the Fitzwilliam Museum I was honestly shocked with the beauty of this place not only the artwork inside but also the building itself the entrance is free so I encourage you to go and experience it firsthand after morning of exploring we decided to stop for lunch at the anchor it's a classic English pub by the river cam where we have lunch fish and chips of course while we watch the typical punting just opposite the restaurant is the famous mathematical bridge and if you keep walking you will get to Sam Mary's Church you can climb to the top of the tower for five pounds and the view is just breathtaking definitely one of the highlights of the day and really a must-see in Cambridge another thing you need to do if you go to Cambridge of course is visiting a college there are lots of options King's College it's just opposite the church and it's one of the most popular ones but we chose the Trinity College at this time and didn't regret it because the chapel and the gray courtyard were stunning it truly feels like you're in Hogwarts Cameron is quite small so you can reach all of these places by foot and then when you're done to like us and have a stroll through town explore its bookstores and antique shops and maybe visit the market to where you can find lots of interesting gifts after a day of exploring we want a beautiful restaurant called 6 where we enjoyed some amazing cocktails and a pizza with a view of Cambridge before heading back to London and this was pretty much our day out in Cambridge I really recommend you visit if you have the opportunity as it is a beautiful place with lots of interesting things to see and do I hope this give you some inspiration don't forget to check out go euro in the description to compare and buy your tickets for your next trip and I'll see you next time bye

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