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Europe Trip Part 3: Cambridge vs. Stanford

Education, Travel on August 15th, 2009 1 Comment

Cambridge is as different from Stanford (or the US system of education) as I can possibly imagine. Where Stanford allocates rooms based on a lottery system, Cambridge’s policy of pricing rooms differently results in the well off people living in nicer rooms. Where Stanford programs always ended off with the reminder that anybody could “approach [...]

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Europe Part 2: Cambridge vs. Stanford

Education, Travel on August 8th, 2009 No Comments

Source: The Independent, UK
I lived for a few days in Cambridge University, visiting many of the Singaporeans there. One of the world’s oldest universities, its halls were once graced by greats such as Newton, Marlowe and so many other legends. It is a charming town full of tradition with little shophouses and narrow, winding streets; [...]

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Europe Part 1: Iceland

Travel on August 6th, 2009 No Comments

(This is the first in a series of backdated posts, of my backpacking trip through Europe before returning home)

A sign of defeat
Travelled from Stanford to London on the cheapest flight possible- Icelandair. Along the way I had a 10 hour layover in Iceland, and took the opportunity to explore a bit before the flight to [...]

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