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Thursday 27 January 2011

The Examined Life



First published in TCS Lent Issue 2, 2011

Not having exams is great but at the same time it's a bit of an anticlimax. You get to May Week and you realise you have no reason to celebrate. Well, right, you've handed in your thesis but it's just not the same feeling. So then you don't really feel like going to May Balls anymore. Or maybe that's just the '4 years+ at Cambridge' syndrome...

13 comments:

  1. Your little speech at the end seems copyrighted by Hermione. "Oh dear, without exams, it isn't the SAME anymore, is it?! What is even the point?"
    :D

    I want Jenny's computer. You should suggest this alteration to Steve Jobs.


    PS : What is this strange fetish with Lacoste? ;p

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  2. Yes, I know, I can't resist a Lacoste polo shirt. I'm working on it though :p

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  3. ps I'm planning to get one for myself the day I get my first salary

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  4. You mean, you actually plan on leaving Cambridge eventually???!! And get a... JOB?!
    Le monde de la recherche n'est plus ce qu'il était...

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  5. no no, my first salary from my books... hopefully it will be just enough to pay for a second-hand Lacoste polo shirt on sale :D

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  6. The order of the Universe has been restored. Pheeeeeeew.

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  7. I look forward to see it!!!
    (Ce sera un très bon prétexte pour traverser la Manche : "But Clémentine has a new shirt, Mum, I need that Eurostar ticket!")

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  8. photos will be all over Facebook

    but which colour???? help me

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  9. Is it just me, or have you actually replaced the apple logo on the Macbook with a clementine?

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  10. Personnellement, j'aime beaucoup le vert, mais pas le vert pomme, un vert profond. Si le vert roi existait, ben ça serait cette couleur.
    Sinon le bleu lavande est plutôt chouette. Ou violet. Le noir est toujours une option sûre, et je ne vois pas tant que ça de Lacoste noir, d'ailleurs.

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  11. Je crois qu'ils en ont des roses pâles qui t'iraient bien, je pense.

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  12. @Olivia: oh yes. Way to go!

    @Mathilde: pas noir car j'ai l'air d'un vampire en noir. J'hésite entre vert et bleu en effet, et rose...... ...

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  13. Je ne vois pas ton objection à l'idée de te rapprocher encore un peu de Bella, mais passons...
    Anyway, tiens-moi au courant quand ton dilemne sera résolu! ;)

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