? There is an English saying that politicians who want to go to Oxford University for further study and those who want to win the Nobel Prize have to go to Cambridge University. Since its founding 800 years ago, Cambridge has trained 73 Nobel Prize winners, more than Harvard and Yale combined. The school is even more proud to say: "It is impossible and unnecessary to count all the celebrities in Cambridge because there are too many." As one of the top universities in the world, many people only see its celebrity stories, but in fact, there are a lot of quirks in the academic atmosphere of Cambridge University: painting the toilet wall black for "toilet writers" to doodle, candidates openly ordering food in the examination room, student anchors broadcasting news naked and so on.

Cambridge Toilet: Blackboard as Wall

Trinity College of Cambridge University is one of the largest, richest and most prestigious colleges in Cambridge University. This college built a toilet in a certain year. Interestingly, because the school expected that there would be "toilet writers", the wall of this toilet was simply designed as a "blackboard" and ready-made chalk was put there for standby, so a large number of "toilet writers" were produced, but it was easy to clean, just clean it every day. Do you think Cambridge University's solution to problems is original and free?

Cambridge school rules: the examination room becomes a restaurant

China Tiandao student S, who is studying for a master's degree in finance at Cambridge University, mentioned in an interview that there are many strange school rules in Cambridge University, such as how many nights students have to stay in the college, they can jump over the wall if they come home late, and they can't be accommodating if they don't go home. Students are not allowed to walk on the grass, and the grass can only let academicians walk. More interestingly, students can skip classes, and teachers should respect students' freedom to skip classes.

Tiandao also told a story that happened at the exam site of Cambridge University: a candidate suddenly showed the invigilator a copy of the rules of Cambridge University 400 years ago, one of which stipulated that the candidate had the right to get snacks and beer during the exam, so the candidate asked the invigilator to provide him with snacks and beer. Finally, the invigilator had to temporarily bring coke and hamburgers as substitutes. It's not over yet. Three weeks later, Cambridge University fined the candidate five pounds because he didn't wear his sword in the exam according to the school rules.

Cambridge freedom: students broadcast news naked

Students at Cambridge University set up a TV channel, and the anchor broadcast news in front of the school's historical landmark. It is reported that after the opening credits, two Cambridge University student anchors broadcast naked and read news headlines ranging from college football teams to celebrity gossip. At the end of the weather broadcast, the female anchor humorously told the male anchor "Be sure to wear warm clothes". The two also said at the end of the news: "This is naked news, giving you naked truth."

Hippies in Cambridge: Strawberry Festival before graduation

The following is something that many Tiandao students have participated in: Strawberry Festival. The Strawberry Festival held by Cambridge University on the eve of graduation every year is a playful and relaxed style, which is just the opposite of elegant boat songs. Strawberry Festival has its profound cultural background, that is, the hippie culture in the United States that began in the 1960s-a completely spontaneous and purely spiritual hippie movement. All the people who took part in the Strawberry Festival parade were dressed in strange clothes and wigs, and some boys were still standing on stilts.

Eat in Cambridge: incense is born under a black robe.

The formal hall is something that Oxford and Cambridge are particularly proud of, because it gives people with different backgrounds and majors an opportunity to communicate. A student from Tiandao joked that the formal hall is characterized by a group of people in black robes whispering and eating an incredibly long dinner in a dark and windy night. Judging from the clothes, because the school requires more formal clothes, men wear ties and bow ties, and women are topless. In short, everyone is dressed like going to the Oscar ceremony. But strangely, everyone has to wear a black robe in the style of a priest at the same time-since everyone has to wear a black robe outside, it is also required to dress vividly inside. Isn't this meant to "tease you"?

Formal also means eating very formally: pre-dinner wine, bread, appetizers, dinner, dessert, fruit, after-dinner wine, coffee and tea are indispensable. So it takes three hours to play after a meal. Tiandao students laughed and said that the longest formal class lasted for 6 hours, and finally they were hungry. A third of the whole evening was spent discussing Hayek and Giddens with the people around him; One-third of the time with a physics professor to discuss the electron-positron collider and British urban planning; One third of the time, I discussed with a satellite scientist the latest development of satellite mobile phone industry and the political trend of Taiwan Province Province.