REALISTIC day in the life of Cambridge university student
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2023
- Cambridge isn’t all 6am rowing and midnights in the library- most of the time, it’s waking up at 9, taking disproportionately long study breaks, and going clubbing. My name is Oliver, I’m a third year linguistics student at St John’s college, Cambridge. I wanted to show you what going to Cambridge is actually like. For a lot of people, it is just like study-tubers show it to be- early starts, nothing but work, and no night life. But there is also another kind of Cambridge lifestyle which doesn’t get put out there as much, and hopefully this video will show you what it’s like to be at Cambridge without being an early bird, nor hyper focussed, nor someone who doesn’t like drinking.
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I'm gonna study English Lit at Magdalene soon, thanks for showing the campus and reassuring me that I'll still have a social life at Cambridge alongside my studies haha😅😅
my biggest worry before i came was if i could have a social life and trust me you sooooo can!! hope it all goes well at mags!
i love your humour
ugh i miss cambridge
Hi Oliver! Fitz fresher here again. :) What’s your advice on taking the following modules? Do you recommend them?
- Li6 Phonetics
- Li7 Phonology
- Li11 Historical Linguistics/ Li13 History of English
- Li15 First and Second Language Acquisition
- Li16 Psychology of Language Processing and Learning
- Li18 Computational Linguistics
hey! unfortunately, the only one of those modules i took was li15 so i can only really comment there. the module is really good at introducing you to diverse perspectives on lang ac.- it's taught by lecturers with completely different perspectives from each other and they all get their share of input on what is taught to you, which means you get a good taste of both sides of key debates, which is really useful. it's also very broad- you do stuff right from single word acquisition right up to complex syntax and discourse principle acquisition which is good because it suits pretty much everyone's interests. the only thing i would say is that it can be sometimes disjointed because of all the different perspectives and topics you're covering, there isn't a lot of consistent follow-through. but on the whole, it's a really interesting module and i would definitely recommend it, especially if you're interested in dealing with data, as there are practical sessions where they talk about how research is actually conducted and part of the exam is dealing with research data
as for the rest, i'm actually taking li16 and li18 next year, so i'll have to get back to you on those. but from what i've heard, people LOVE li16 and really rave about it. as for li18 i've heard its quite a lot of work, apparently the coding can take up a big chunk of your time. but i've also heard the lecture content is really interesting and most people really enjoy doing it, especially since its all quite topical, and its taught very well apparently so that's good
i didn't take li6 but people ik who did said it's very scientific- some of the content they do on sound waves is the same content as some of the physics students (but not in the same depth of course). but it also does introduce you to some applications, where you can do phonetic acquisition and forensic phonetics within it so that's useful. to me, it looks like a lot of analysing whether our analysis of sound is accurate or not, being more critical about the IPA and other things you might have touched on in li1
can't say anything about li7 phonology but at the minute, it's on a year-on-year-off schedule with li8 morphology. morphology was offered last year so phonology will be offered 2023-2024, then not offered 2024-2025 if that makes sense. there's talk of restructuring how morphology and phonology are taught in the department, but the plans aren't clear and won't come into effect for a good few years anyway
@@olivercooney omggg Thank you Oliver so much for ur advice!!!! It helps so much :DDD i’d also like to know if you have any thoughts Li17 Language Typology and C19 Chinese Linguistics (borrowed paper)? Cos I’m chinese heheheh, wondering if there’s any more chinese students studying linguistics at cambridge 😁
Haha, honest overview,😊 nice. Brother if you make video for teenagers describing about how to get in top universities would be great.
already in the works! will definitely be coming out soon so watch this space haha
although i do already have a video giving advice on personal statements on my channel!
@@olivercooney Waiting. Best of luck for your UA-cam journey.
@@olivercooney He's got some great collabs with some really awesome upcoming Cambridge youtubers (me) coming out next term👀
Bro the poster behind u 😂
shout out to rosalia
I cannot wait to force you to collab with me next term!!!!
HAHAHA it was a very good club night indeed
gotta love a QGD
(yes i did pronounce that as "kwugd" in my head)
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I put Trump's booking on "mute" so I could watch this segment with the sound on!