Bye, Bitch: Fines, wine and dining dramas…
Grace Donnelly dishes dirt on the top 20 Cambridge things that she can’t wait to say “Bye, Bitch” to
1. Library fines
2. Weekly emails for the past two years reminding me to pay these fines. No, English Faculty Library, you are not getting that 25p
3. The fact that it always rains on a Wednesday; unfailingly the day that I will have to leave college for a lecture or supervision
4. The lengthy walk to the laundry room, which invariably has no machines available
5. Paying for said laundry
6. Ineffective college staff – please don’t take my tea light holders because they are a “fire hazard”, you can’t ignite glass
7. Guilt for not making the most of my Union membership. Then going to my sixth event in three years and thinking, “this probably isn’t worth £30”
8. Cycling in a hail storm
9. Hail stopping when I have arrived
10. People that stop lectures to ask question or to go back to the previous slide, or debate with the lecturer. You might like the sound of your own voice, but I did not come to Mill Lane at 9am to hear how much you have read
11. Half a bottle of wine limit at formal
12. Paying corkage – on that half bottle
13. Murray Edwards’ refusal to serve crowd-pleasers at formal. A ‘poached pear’ is not a dessert
14. The extreme offence and moral high ground that students take towards any and every issue
15. Absent-minded pedestrians stepping into the road when I am cycling
16. Food theft d-r-a-m-a
17. The never ending “Extras” on the college bill
18. The lingo – and the assumption from first day of first year that you know what a ‘natsci’ is
19. Spending Sundays in a library
20. Doing exams
If you have a few things to say 'Bye, Bitch' to, let us know – we'll probably agree – at features@varsity.co.uk
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