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Spring 2018: Day 11

On the penultimate full day of our Spring programme, we took the opportunity to take all of our students into London to experience some of the fantastic museums our Capital has to offer. We woke up bright and early to have breakfast in Reach Hall, before traveling into the centre of London. We spent the…

Spring 2018: Day 9

The students were up early again today, and after a continental breakfast they headed off to their subject-specific classes. In medicine, the students explored sensory perception with their specialist tutor. After studying the theory, students experienced ‘The Third Hand Illusion’. In this experiment, a prosthetic arm was placed next to the real right-hand arm. A…

Spring 2018: Day 7

Last night’s end of week celebration meal and bowling was tinged with sadness, as this morning we bid goodbye to some of the students who had helped to make the first week so special. However, we are incredibly lucky to be joined by some more brilliant young people from around the world. After being joined by…

Spring 2018: Day 5

This morning was our final morning of subject classes for this week. Highlights included Emergency Medicine in the Life Science and Medicine class – students were taught how to assess a casualty and practised bandages and basic first aid principles. In Psychology, they looked at cognitive psychology and its methods through the study of brain…

Spring 2018: Day 4

Reach Cambridge is designed to not only give our students a taste of University life and an experience of Cambridge, but also to show them the best that the UK has to offer. Friday was all about the latter, with our students setting off bright and early this morning to head into London for a…

Spring 2018: Day 3

Our students really experienced all that Cambridge has to offer on this bright, beautiful sunshine day! The day started off with a traditional cooked breakfast in a local restaurant, followed by another morning of subject classes. Highlights from the subject classes today included anatomy and dissection in both Psychology and Life Sciences and Medicine, as…

Spring 2018: Day 2

What an action-packed first full day here in Cambridge! The day started off with a continental breakfast in Reach Hall followed by the first subject supervision classes. Highlights from today’s first classes included key concepts in wellbeing science in Psychology, analysing the ‘DaVinci’ code in Maths & Computer Sciences, and studying the cardiovascular system in…

Spring 2018: Day 1

During our Spring program, we will be publishing a daily blog, so you can keep up to date with what the students are doing each day. We have also begun documenting the days on the Reach Cambridge Instagram Story – find us on Instagram as @reachcambridge and click ‘follow’ to keep up to date! After…

Guest Post: Looking Forward

The Friendship Fortnight festivities continue. Fara will be coming to Reach this August and wrote about her hopes for this summer. Read on for her great friendship building tactics, and...

Guest Post: My Reach Cambridge Experience

We all want adventure but sometimes the idea of going abroad to study or travel without your family and friends can seem a little daunting. Rand studied English Literature and Performing Arts at Reach Cambridge in Summer 2017. It was her first experience of being properly away from home and thinking about what life might…