Let me tell you how old I am. My boyfriend had a Sony Ericsson flip phone (with a collapsible antenna) when I went to Eds. And it wasn’t a retro thing. It was cool. When I got my Eddies acceptance letter in the postal mail – there was no website Read more…
When coming to the University of Cambridge to study, the biggest fear is ‘I will not belong here’. This terrible self-doubting feeling, rampant in academia also known as ‘imposter syndrome’ can be debilitating for anyone. Especially someone from a small country, that had finished a degree in a Greek University, Read more…
When I arrived at St. Edmund’s in April 1969 I learned that I was the first woman to live in college. Housed in the cottage behind the main house,, I was joined a couple of months later by Margaret Geib. I was a graduate (research) student at the University of Notre Read more…
After graduating from the University of Washington, I embarked on a sports career as a professional tennis player representing Hong Kong. I reached No. 1 in Hong Kong and No. 340 in the world during my tennis career. The end of 2012 was a low point in my life because Read more…
I remember fervently praying and checking my student portal to hear back on whether I had got in. From the extensive education and financial checks to the college acceptance (where Eddie’s was my first choice – my incredible supervisor Neil is from the same college and recommended I apply to Read more…
It’s funny how things turn out. Here’s a family snap in the early 1980s. We are posing outside my digs on Huntingdon Road. And in the background……Mount Pleasant House! It is safe to say I couldn’t have imaged then how much a part of my life that building was to Read more…
Like an indelible pen across a page, St Edmund’s has made such a mark on my life. When I arrived at St Edmund’s for Michaelmas term in 2000, I felt unsteady, unsure as to what lied ahead. I was coming to Eddies to study medicine, but rather than the wide-eyed excitement Read more…
A dare took me to Cambridge and changed the course of my life. After I finished my undergraduate degree at Bond University, Australia, I was at a loose end. I was planning to continue to run a business that I started some years earlier, but I unexpectedly walked away. I Read more…
St. Edmund’s was my third incarnation in Cambridge. I first came up as an undergraduate to read Modern Languages at Newnham in the late 70s. I had just finished a two-year novitiate in a convent and was dressed in seventeenth-century widow’s costume. For my friends, most of whom had never Read more…
Having spent a large part of my 20s as a member and resident of St. Edmunds College, it is only natural to reflect upon how big a role Cambridge and particularly, Eddies, has played in my personal and academic development. I arrived a timid international student at St. Edmund’s College Read more…