5 small things that got me through Cambridge University

[@FrancisMadden]

1K Q&A🙌 The last 2 weeks have been absolutely insane, going from 100 to 1000 subscribers! Thank you so much to all of you who have subscribed recently💗 - as a special treat, I shall be holding a Q&A in my next video. Reply to this comment asking me anything, and all will be answered very soon!

[@anoushkakapoor9608]

hi Francis!! i love your videos!! my question to you is how do you balance making KZbin videos while doing a full time Msc.?? 🥲🤠

[@FrancisMadden]

@@anoushkakapoor9608 a special place in my heart for getting the ball rolling😍

[@ritvikmuthuswamy7155]

Really enjoying these videos!! Would you say you have any regrets from your time at University?

[@mayaa77]

will you marry me :)

[@thomasburke6360]

Great video! Wish I knew about these things before I started uni! What would be one thing you would tell your fresher self?

[@emmahorgan3462]

I don't attend Cambridge, I already have my BSc. and MSc., but these videos are weirdly addictive...

[@FrancisMadden]

Hahahah the joys of watching KZbin

[@lilaclai6560]

totally...

[@jamesfarley5856]

Loved the green! The supervisors who not only allowed, but actually encouraged us to submit at least one essay plan rather than full essays will forever live in my heart. I doubt that I ever met a whole term's worth of deadlines in 3 years

[@sophielawrence5468]

i'm applying to cambridge literally tomorrow but i'm watching this video as if i'm there so i get attached and cry when it doesn't happen.

[@MahouKat]

Same sis. Same.

[@jonathanw8450]

Same here.

[@FrancisMadden]

Good luck with your applications!! Pls don't get too attached hahah, there really isn't some higher form of happiness achieved by going to Cambridge compared to other unis (or if there is, I didn't get the memo😩)

[@yixuan9453]

The last tip was such a life saver! I’ve been struggling with all these fees for essay access for so long THANK YOU

[@east04k28]

Thank you for telling me to avoid the mentioned websites. I did not know them before, but I will make sure to avoid them during my postgrad studies. Love you man

[@grahamkelsey8687]

Starting Cambridge course as we speak this brought a :) to my face but also was surprising helpful….cheers

[@FrancisMadden]

Niiice what you studying?

[@grahamkelsey8687]

@@FrancisMadden Natural Sciences (focus on biological)

[@FrancisMadden]

@@grahamkelsey8687 cool cool, hope you're settling in ok!

[@grahamkelsey8687]

@@FrancisMadden thankyou! Probably not the best time in history for such things, but such is life!….ok back to readings…hmm or memebridge…coin flip

[@leehyunjae190]

Enjoying your video from South Korea. Applying for Cambridge Compsci this year, hope I get admitted (though the application statistics for Compsci is especially intimidating)

[@FrancisMadden]

Good luck!!

[@MaverickNextGen]

Brilliant mate. I left Cambridge all the way back in 2000 and went to UCL afterwards. Love the Girton meme. Keep posting!

[@FrancisMadden]

Cheers man!

[@katyailina6102]

You are very charismatic and your videos are beautifully made! I really look forward to your videos and I appreciate the content you make very much, so thank you for your hard work!

[@FrancisMadden]

Aw thank you so much Katya! More on the way

[@HM-jd2hn]

I and others might be interested into hearing your experience applying for a masters at UCL. I’m currently an undergraduate in my third year looking to apply for a MSc by research at Cambridge

[@kalle9758]

I'd really love it if you made a video about using Anki for essay plans!!!

[@olivergaskell5201]

Just applied to cambridge two weeks ago... Gonna be watching a lot more of these videos if I get accepted!

[@FrancisMadden]

good luck oliver!

[@hungryhog1]

As an (old) Emma alumnus who is sadly out of touch your videos are a very useful for me to recommend to my students (I am a private tutor). You are the Jake Wright of the 2020s :)

[@FrancisMadden]

This is unbelievably high praise wow thank you so much!! Is that a crsid username I see as well 👀

[@hungryhog1]

@@FrancisMadden haha yes an anagram of my CRSID, I did the reverse of you (UCL, then Cam for postgrad).

[@deeska8775]

Absolutely would love to hear about Anki for essays! In my country we don't have to do essays typically completing degrees (there are exceptions like studying English) but exams or case work. So the idea of essay planning and the whole concept is quite interesting to me! What about you? What do you think of all essays for grading?

[@faithlesshound5621]

The point of essays at university is not the outcome, which students typically worry about, but the process. What matters is the whole business of selectively looking through books, and possibly papers, with some question in mind and then pulling together what you have found into a coherent form. That cements the "facts" into your mind better than any set of flash cards or Anki. Ali (the medical student pictured) apparently set himself his own essays, which he then wrote at speed and memorised in chunks using this method. In the sciences you won't usually be able to recite an old essay in an exam, but there may be chunks that can be re-used. The corollary is that it is better to do this early, at leisure (think Hermione Granger) rather than in a hurry after the deadline. Maths students don't have essays, but they are constantly working through problems using what they have learned, which may amount to the same thing.

[@safwaan5630]

@@faithlesshound5621 thank you for this. Got a lot of value from it

[@kirankhanom2201]

Asking for extensions & handing in plans is so normal in the history fac that I was genuinely shocked in third year when a new supervisor refused to accept my essay plan lol Great video!! Looking forward to the Q&A 🙌

[@Nutshellvania]

Thank you for the warning! I’ll definitely avoid those websites here on out 🤗

[@FrancisMadden]

That's what we like to hear👮

[@nicolemusic2242]

got into Cambridge but I can't find memebridge😪 on a serious note, tysm for making this, it's very helpful!!!

[@me-ku3hm]

A video on using anki for essay plans would be super useful if you have the time!!

[@oluwayemisiakinleye5918]

What keeps getting my attention is your accent... It's so 😎!.

[@viveka89goswami]

Can you do a video on your master's application process and why you didn't go for Oxbridge after your undergrad?

[@FallaIcy]

any tips for highschool?

[@ctyingg_928]

What’s your career plan for psychology? Are you doing a master now? Are you planning to completed a doctorate degree? Advise of getting work experience that is psychology related? I’m a Year 1 psychology student and I am so anxious about the super competitive psychology field and I can’t get a future with it lol.

[@lloydmorgan2068]

Ngl I think I related harder to the memory foam pillow than anki 😂 my question is what's your editing process? And 10k by end of year?

[@paulseoighemcgee5772]

I am going home to 'avoid' a kit Kat and brew now ; )

[@kinchan7558]

yeah boiiiiiii let's go!

[@silhouette9375]

Do you have any effective way to fall asleep quickly？

[@hli7494]

just wondering how do you feel about UCl.😬 you are the person I interestingly want to encounter offline in ucl campus😂

[@aidenl5215]

What’s the best advice you’ve ever heard?

[@idontevergiveup8367]

I graduated from high school I got 99.75 for my dream. I study medicine at this university. Can I do this? Please reply to know whether I can reach my dream or not. Thank you

[@pregerzoreo4886]

Did it happen?

[@joesoy9185]

How quickly things can change; Goodbye Facebook, hello Meta...

[@hli7494]

why choose ucl for master study? don't tell me because it is centred in London... give me some real shits

[@gsafi3729]

How has studying psychology effected your perception of the world for example if you had children and they wanted to do rugby, American football or boxing would that be a 100% no as you understand how sensitive and fragile the brain is or do you separate you intellectual knowledge from particular life decisions also as I came across your football Index video first it may be interesting to hear your opinion on the idea of banning headers in football to stop brain damage as some former footballers have suffered from cognitive issues later on in life even though I believe the footballs in their day to be very different to modern day footballs but either way I always find it interesting to hear how someone who is well-versed in something view of the world may differ from the wider public and what we could learn to make more educated decisions

[@FrancisMadden]

Interesting question - I'm not sure whether studying psychology has actually made a difference to my thinking about that. I think anyone who has read news articles about CTE would be reluctant to let their child start one of those hobbies you mention. I still think you should be allowed to, just with the knowledge of the potential consequences long-term. You can modify sports e.g. by removing headers from football, but head trauma is just inherently part of others e.g. rugby, boxing. Complicated!

[@gsafi3729]

@@FrancisMadden Ok awesome thanks for the reply!

[@quinfabmax7672]

blink twice if i should use those two websites

[@wangyijing6747]

You’re so attractive! Does anyone know about his Instagram number?

[@天天学习-s8x]

what is your Whatsapp?

[@FrancisMadden]

I'll trade you for your credit card details

[@天天学习-s8x]

@@FrancisMadden 😂do not do that