I arrived in Cambridge this afternoon and was given the keys to my college bedroom, my home for the next year. The room is great – modern, en-suite and a view of Fenner's cricket pitch!

After unloading my boxes from the car, I went down to The Mill pub where some of my cohort had arranged a pre-term get together. Over the following 5 hours, I met around 40 of my future classmates. At some point we moved on to a Thai restaurant and finally the Eagle pub.

A good social start to the programme.