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CHRIST'S
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Access "I'm obviously not going to raise its profile more by wittering on in Christ's Pieces about how nice it would be to have equal opportunities and a classless society. Nor am I going to start going into Croydon state schools, telling the inmates 'Oh I say darling, you simply must come to Cambridge. It's really the place to be.'" "The school deliberately encouraged my application for this college, sending my friend to Selwyn, on the grounds that we had different styles and skills as historians - Christ's were more likely to favour my fluffy writing, Selwyn more likely to enjoy Martin's sixteen-page lists of dates and names." "Then came the tricky bit. The college asked for two pieces of normal written work. We wrote these specially, being given many extra lessons to help us improve our skills: I was sent on a one-week course in early modern history, specifically concerning attitudes to women and magic. This helped my witchcraft essay a lot. We were never told exactly what to write - that would have been cheating - but we submitted and re-submitted our essays until such time as they were good enough to be marked. Only then were they sent off to the college." |