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Charlie

I’m a second year student from West London reading History at Jesus. Having spent my first year studying the Late Antique and Twentieth-Century worlds, I look forward to broadening my interests further this year into Political History and Medieval Europe.

Jesus has rapidly become home for me, being part of the first Jesus side to ever win Rugby Cuppers and consistent involvement with college sports and societies were pivotal to this quick acclimation. How fast such a community forms, even arriving completely alone with the normal anxieties of a fresher, is testament to the incredible privilege attending this college is.

The network of students, fellows, staff and alumni has been such an important part of my Cambridge experience so far and has given me opportunities I could have only dreamed of when I arrived here. Jesus will hold a key place in my heart, even long after my time as a student ends.

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  • Rafi Levy and Max Turner

    Rafi Levy and Max Turner

    Computer Science (2019) and Architecture and Urban Design (2019)

    We first met in 2021 when we joined the May Ball committee as webmaster and graphic designer. We spent a lot of time together that year, working closely to create a graphic scheme and build a website for the event. Even though it was a lot of hard work and very stressful at times, we are so grateful to have been part of it as it is thanks to that opportunity that we became great friends. A couple of years later, we are still great friends and now have a...

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    Computer Science (2019) and Architecture and Urban Design (2019)
  • Lene Northwood

    Criminology (1996)

    As a person who grew up on the opposite side of the planet to a family that had no history of attending university, the idea of me attending Cambridge was, quite frankly, laughable. Then I fell in love with Criminology and wrote a thesis that caught the attention of the College. It is just one example of the incredibly outward looking approach that, in the decades that I have known the College, has defined ÌÇÐÄVlog. One letter with a now familiar letterhead, quite literally raised my expectations of life...

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    Criminology (1996)
  • Mark and Janet Hayes

    Mark Hayes and Janet Livesley

    Architecture (1976) and Architecture (1980)

    We first met in 1980 when Mark returned to Jesus to study for the postgraduate diploma in Architecture and Janet joined the college on the same course. Graduate dinners in Upper Hall were a highlight of the week and an opportunity to meet socially with other Jesuans. Part of our studies included trips to Zambia and an earthquake-hit area in Southern Italy. We were married in the College Chapel just after completing our studies in the summer of 1982 and remained in Cambridge for a period following Mark’s election to...

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    Architecture (1976) and Architecture (1980)
  • John Arrastia

    Law (1995)

    I came to Cambridge at the suggestion of a Professor who was visiting the US. I borrowed the funds to study there. What appealed to me at Jesus was that it was so inclusive and embracing. I played golf with the Porters and rugby with the staff. I dined with the other students, socialised with the Fellows, danced with the Master’s wife, and really got to know people. My friends and colleagues were engineers, doctors, politicians, religious scholars, undergrads, lawyers, professors – basically every stripe of humanity one could find...

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    Law (1995)
  • Johnny Harounoff and Stephanie Posner

    Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (2013) and Classics (2012)

    We met 10 years ago as undergraduates living in the same staircase in North Court and have since been studying and working in the United States. The College was so accommodating to us by providing us — and other Jewish students — with kosher facilities and by supporting the creation of the College's first Jewish Society. For us, the College is full of happy memories thanks to the friends we made and for all of the kindness shown to us from the porters, professors and staff. That sense of community...

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    Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (2013) and Classics (2012)