With Easter Term upon us and the easing of lockdown restrictions coming into place, what better time for some more quintessential questions from your Violet editors?

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Favourite brand of Easter egg?

Alex: M&S Eggplant Kitchen. Okay, it may not be an egg, but who doesn’t want a slightly risqué giant aubergine-shaped chocolate?

Lotte: Anything that comes with a complimentary mug.

Nadya: Kit Kat - who doesn’t want the cute chocolate bunnies it comes with?

How did you celebrate the end of term?

Alex: A bottle of extra strong squash. Shaken not stirred.

Lotte: Wine and a hearty cry to relieve stress from the term just gone.

Nadya: A complementary essay crisis for a newly invented week 9.

One thing you learnt about yourself in Lent term?

Alex: No matter how many times I convince myself I’m definitely going to the next college Zoom social… oops.

Lotte: Try as I might, I will never read for fun in term time.

Nadya: Due date can still equal do date.

“In Michaelmas term, I ventured outside daily, cycling, walking, taking the train. Now I am back to the life that suits me best. Rarely leaving my bedroom. ”

In the spirit of Easter, what have you resurrected this term?

Alex: The hermit life. In Michaelmas term, I ventured outside daily, cycling, walking, taking the train. Now I am back to the life that suits me best. Rarely leaving my bedroom.

Lotte: Not getting out of bed until well into the afternoon. The sloth-like way to live.

Nadya: The ability to eat an inordinate amount of chocolate eggs in a worryingly short space of time.

Something you wish you’d given up for Lent?

Alex: My dissertation.

Lotte: University work in its entirety.

Nadya: The snooze button.

If you were the Easter Bunny, what would you hide instead of chocolate eggs?

Alex: Plutonium.

Lotte: My Dad’s Nespresso machine- he can’t live without it, so it would drive him up the wall.

Nadya: Anything but those terrible toys found in Kinder eggs.

Instead of having a reading week potentially introduced next year, what ‘week’ would you campaign to see in the new term?

Alex: ‘Pyjamas in the park’ week.

Lotte: Role reversal week- our supervisors get set an impossible reading list and essay question, and the students mark it and dole out ‘constructive criticism’.

Nadya: I vote we keep the reading week, but disguise it as a ploy to recreate a Cambridge-themed Reading festival. No one will know.

Open book online exam term is looming. What’s your go-to online resource?

Alex: Netflix… good for learning foreign languages.

Lotte: The Camfess Facebook page is always a good place to go when you’re lacking inspiration.

Nadya: Rightmove - must have an escape route sorted.

Outside restaurants are re-opening, who are your dream 5 guests?

Alex: Yoko Ono and the Beatles. It’s time to heal the wounds.

Lotte: Claudia Winkleman, Stephen Fry, Rob Beckett, Virginia Woolf and Joey Essex, hours and hours of quality conversation.

Nadya: Chopin, Michael McIntyre, Virgil, Taylor Swift, and the Dalai Lama.

Any recluse-like habits you’ll be unwilling to give up once Lockdown is lifted?

Alex: Walking exactly 20 steps a day. Why would I do more?

Lotte: Wearing the same horrible jumper and jogging bottoms every day without fail.

Nadya: Putting myself on mute during class.