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Internships | |
Summer time, and the living certainly isn't easy. Several members of this website are either slogging their guts out in the City on a summer placement, or know what it's like, having done so in the past. What's the point? I'm gaining a valuable insight into the industry that I want to work for |   | 29% |  | I'm gaining a valuable insight and I realise it's not an industry I want to work for |   | 21% |  | I now realise student life is so cushy and I may well do a masters to avoid this for as long as possible |   | 93% |  | How do people put up with commuting? It sucks |   | 29% |  | I love commuting... there's a train and it goes underground and everything! |  | 7% |  | I'm being given interesting work and contributing to the company |  | 43% |  | I have menial tasks and do not feel valued |   | 21% |  | They keep taking me out for drinks etc |   | 43% |  | There are no social activities in the evening because I'm still working | | 0% |  | Everything seems so expensive here |   | 29% |  | I'm not doing an internship because I'm working in the pub at home | | 0% |  | I'm not doing an internship because I'd rather have a long summer holiday |  | 29% |  | The experience I have gained on this internship will look great on my cv |  | 21% |  | The experience I have gained on this internship will look great on my cv once I've hyped it up a bit |   | 36% |  | Now I realise why the bufties keep coming up to Cambridge |   | 64% | Total: 14 members' votes (4 comments...) |
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Can you be bothered to vote? | |
Total: 29 members' votes (7 comments...) |
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Who is/was the greatest oar of all time? | |
Abbagnale (brothers, any of them) | | 0% |  | Ned Hanlan | | 0% |  | Sir Matthew Pinsent |   | 29% |  | Sir Steve Redgrave |   | 48% |  | James Tomkins |  | 5% |  | Rob Waddell |  | 14% |  | Dreissigacker (brothers, inventors of the ergo) |  | 5% | Total: 21 members' votes (16 comments...) |
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At which sport do Black Prince have the best chance of beating FaT (other than rowing)? | |
Cricket | | 0% |  | Golf | | 0% |  | Triathlon |   | 65% |  | Atlantic Rowing |   | 92% |  | Earning More Money |   | 85% |  | Drinking |   | 35% |  | Chess |  | 4% | Total: 26 members' votes (18 comments...) |
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Daddy or Chips? | |
Total: 13 members' votes (2 comments...) |
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Which of the following will we see first? | |
I'm sure all of these events will occur at some point in the future, but which will be first? FaT win Uni M4+ |  | 8% |  | FaT win Uni W4+ |  | 8% |  | FaT actually beats an inferior LMBC in the Uni LM4- |  | 8% |  | Lents Headship |  | 31% |  | Mays Headship | | 0% |  | Women's Lents Headship |  | 4% |  | Women back in 1st May Division |   | 31% |  | BPBC don't win Fairbairns category |  | 8% |  | RTT drops below 72kg again |  | 4% | Total: 26 members' votes (19 comments...) |
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What next? | |
After rowing across the Channel, what will the club do next? Boston Marathon |   | 50% |  | Great River Race |  | 5% |  | Record attempt on rowing the length of the Cam/Ouse |  | 5% |  | Row to Lincoln |  | 5% |  | Beat BPBC in the Fairbairn Cup |  | 9% |  | Mays Headship |  | 14% |  | Successfully enter a 1x into the GoR |  | 14% | Total: 22 members' votes |
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Your favourite Bumps | |
The Lents & Mays are quite different experiences through the contrasting weather, number of crews, different spectators, work and social distractions etc... Which do you prefer? Lents |  | 24% |  | Mays |   | 76% |  | Oxford City | | 0% | Total: 29 members' votes |
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What was your favourite Bumps race report? | |
Everyone knows that the real purpose of racing is to write a good report afterwards. Which of this year's May Bumps reports was your favourite? M1 - Describing Maggie as 'hench' |   | 6% |  | W1 - Haikus and Limericks |   | 10% |  | M3 - Smiley Mark's blacksmith metaphor |  | 16% |  | M3 - Christoph's tale of Icarus |   | 13% |  | W3 - Counting strokes until the bump |  | 3% |  | M4 - Top Gun quotes |   | 16% |  | Caius M2 describing FaT M2 - 'I swear they had a rocket launcher on their stern!' |   | 32% |  | Other |  | 3% | Total: 31 members' votes |
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Which boat performed best in the Bumps? | |
Not mathematically but achievementally 1st Men |   | 10% |  | 1st Women |   | 10% |  | 2nd Men |   | 77% |  | 2nd Women | | 0% |  | 3rd Men | | 0% |  | 3rd Women | | 0% |  | 4th Men | | 0% |  | 4th Women | | 0% |  | 5th Men | | 0% |  | Atlantic Prince |  | 3% | Total: 39 members' votes (11 comments...) |