For the record, I love Eddies. There’s nowhere else I’d rather be spending my one year at Cambridge- though this is more a case of luck than choice. I applied for my Masters without selecting a College preference; this was partly out of spontaneity, but mainly because I actually knew Read more…
I first met Sarah Davis in September 2018. I had just arrived in Cambridge to study a Classics MPhil which, to my horror, made me a Fresher. Again. Walking into the hubbub of Eddie’s CR, I was uneasy. I faced the daunting prospect of making new friends, forming meaningful bonds, Read more…
The story of how I chose to study an EMBA at Cambridge University and to enter St Edmund’s College is somewhat accidental. I currently work as a desk strategy quant at an Investment Bank. My educational background and work experience have always been around the technical fields of mathematics and computer science. Read more…
‘What does StEds mean to you?’ Well, that is not an easy question to answer. It has been my college for over thirty years and I have many, many happy memories. When I first came to Cambridge University from London University, it felt like an alien place, where women were Read more…
My love affair with Cambridge started with a dream one night in 1980. At the time, I was in a remote part of Sierra Leone working on a project to research and document traditional medicines used by the Kuranko people. Somewhat surprised by the dream, I wrote an inquiry letter Read more…
I first heard that my affiliate undergraduate application in Medicine at Cambridge university was not taken up by Lucy Cavendish, the college I so eagerly wanted to be a part of but had been picked from the pool by St Edmund’s College. I had mixed feelings as I had little Read more…
I am fortunate to have had two residential periods at Eddies. I arrived at St Edmund’s for the first time in 2001 from a rural New Hampshire town in the United States (U.S.) to study Education. I was a single graduate student with one very clear goal in mind; finish Read more…