The University of Cambridge is an intimidating place to enter as an 18-year-old student of architecture. A wealth of great buildings, and minds, make up the history of each college and do little to soothe the nerves of the 'fresher'. Nonetheless, the architecture provides a mixture of inspiration and awe that encouraged me to study at Cambridge in the first place. Studying architecture is a novel endeavour: divorced as it is from the academic standards of maths, physics, art and so on. It is a subject that marries all these subjects into something rich, complex and satisfying. I enjoyed 12 hours of lectures each week on the history and theory of architecture, interspersed with two days of designing spaces in the studio.
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