Choosing a Cambridge college is far more difficult this year. I was attracted to Trinity College but have now changed my mind and instead opted for Queen’s College. This is partly because of the sporting facilities and friendly college homepage, but mostly due to the fact they encourage gap years for mathematics candidates. In sharp contrast, a professor at my Corpus Christi interview last year stated that most mathematicians never recover when they take a gap year.
I could potentially end up at Queens’ College, Cambridge. Interesting propositions like that are rampant in my mind at the moment. I have a new job (some kind of web developer), plenty of money and a wide variety of career opportunities. What shall I do? Commuting to London restricts my activities though: my free time has been cut down to about four hours a day, and that doesn’t take into account dinners, getting changed and so on. Highest priority has to be assigned to increasing my mathematical ability before the December interview at Cambridge (if I get one) and I need to organise travel reading and lunchtime development.
The next task on my agenda is to complete my Cambridge personal statement and perhaps even the Cambridge Special Access Scheme due to some past problems that have affected my studies. My concerns are that my GCSEs are mostly below the standard expected of a Cambridge applicant, my A-levels at the Priory were a complete failure and that my latest module scores in mathematics are worse and vary much more — I actually got a B in my statistics 2 examination! S2 was supposed to be the easiest paper and apparently it should have been the definite 100 % out of the modules I took. Luckily a couple of full-mark modules, including one of the hardest (FP2), brought my average module mark to just over 90 % in both mathematics and further mathematics.
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