Tue, 08 Jun 2004 02:29:26 GMT

River Cam

Here is a cool article on punting on the River Cam.

Fri, 28 May 2004 03:06:11 GMT

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)

Yaddyra Peralta: England 2004

Notable alumni