Chailey students experience university life at Cambridge

Charlotte Gander, Year 10 writes:

On Friday 13th February, 14 Year 10 students travelled to Cambridge to get a sense of what university life is like, and the effect that education at this stage has later on. We arrived at school early so that we could get on the road for our minibus journey.

The idea of the trip was to encourage us to aim high, and that, if we put in the effort, even top universities don’t have to be an out-of-this-world prospect. However one thing that I believe many of us realised was that this isn’t too far in the future.

Once in Cambridge, we received a talk about all things to do with university at the Churchill College campus, one of the more modern Cambridge colleges. It was easy to relate to, as many things we do now affect our choice later in life.  

We got an insight into living as a student on site when we were shown a typical student apartment.  We visited one of the older colleges, Pembroke College, as well as a couple of the libraries but didn’t visit them all as Cambridge has 100 of them!

The day gave as an opportunity to ask any questions we had, and discover more about the logistics of applying to any university.  Overall I found the day very informative and, whilst also remaining enjoyable, it opened my eyes to the possibilities, even those which I hadn’t considered before.  I feel that it was all very helpful.