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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...) |
