ASSORTED CAMBRIDGE ALUMNI OFFER THEIR ADVICE ON GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE
IT SHOULD BE taken as read that the function of university is to expand your mind and make you a more intelligent person than when you entered. “Maybe I’m overstating it,” says Stephen Fry, “but university is first and foremost about intellectual sodalities, learning ‘to play gracefully with ideas’ in Oscar Wilde’s phrase. It’s about reading time and friendship, about learning to understand the limits of one’s knowledge.” However, there’s no reason why these high academic ideals should
not be combined with a concerted effort to prepare for professional life, as a host of experts and luminaries, including some of Cambridge’s finest, can attest.