My summer vacation...

http://www.newhall.cam.ac.uk/

Well, it is official: I am going to Cambridge, England this year.  It's cool saying: "I am teaching at Cambridge University this summer", although I will be working as a representative of my test prep company rather than for the University--nothing fancier than SAT workshops, folks.

Although I had dreamt of Harry Potter-like buildings with ivy-covered walls, I will be staying at one of the newer colleges at Cambridge, New Hall College.  Above is the main building--the Dome--which houses the dining hall and art collection. 

So, dears, we will turn away from New York for the next few weeks as I take you into an obssesive collection of facts about a university I wished I'd gone to...

Notable alumni

• Lord Byron (Trinity)
• John Cleese (Downing)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Jesus)
• Charles Darwin (Christ's)
• John Dryden (Trinity)
• E. M. Forster (King's)
• Jane Goodall (Darwin)
• Germaine Greer (Newnham)
• Eric Idle (Pembroke)
• Christopher Marlowe (Corpus Christi)
• John Milton (Christ's)
• Isaac Newton (Trinity)
• Sylvia Plath (Newnham)
• Salman Rushdie (King's)
• Lord Tennyson (Trinity)
• Emma Thompson (Newnham)
• William Wordsworth (St. John's)
• Vladimir Nabokov (Trinity)

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