Two weeks ago, on Thursday, the halls of KYUEM were graced by the arrival of dignitaries from one of the more distinguished palaces of academia, Cambridge.

They were here to interview 20+ hopeful applicants for a variety of courses: mostly medics, engineers, maths, econs and law (in that order).

There were four interviewers, the most notorious one being Dr. Nava (famed for having made someone cry last year. Someone from this college.)

Maybe it was the Mr. Small hospitality, or maybe it was the dining hall lunch, but luckily the interviews went suprisingly well according to the survivors. (a good interview is where no one comes out crying.)

According to Mr. Small, the interviewers commented that they enjoyed the sessions with the students here. That's got to be a good sign, right ?

Looks like we're probably going to have to erect more pedestals for the lucky ones who get in.

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The Oxford interviews weren't as exciting. What do you expect from an interview centre dubiously named Quality Hotel. (of course, to its credit, the place is reasonably beautiful, and a few minutes walk from Sogo) To those that remember, yes it was the same hotel that served our royal guest last semester. The lunch with the embarrasingly ungraceful cutlery use. ;)

This interview was also much smaller, with only 7 bold applicants hailing from this college (1 medic, 1 maths, 2 engine, 3 econs).

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Not satisfied with torturing us with interviews, the great brains of Oxbridge have also decided to break our will with extra tests. The Thinking Skills Assessment was unleashed upon all Cambridge-applying engineers last Saturday at Sunway College. The Maths and Econs people were handed their equivalent subject papers then too. Their Oxford counterparts have their own tests or essays later on.

AS for the Medics, they will be sitting for the BMAT paper next week. Horrors!

All in all, the results will be known by mid-December, early January. Ah, they just won't stop torturing us.