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Ents: Bland but popular bar holds regular events from karaoke evenings and open mic nights to themed evening and pub quizzes; all usually in the name of sweet char-idee. Recently painted common room with widescreen Sky TV, DVD, pool table and recycling facilities. Classical and jazz concerts in Benson Hall (cap 100). Annual musical and freshers’ play and garden party. The biennial ball is one of the snazziest about - very posh. ‘Ars Magna’ termly College mag and biweekly ‘Magd In’ and ‘Magd Out’ e-newsletters.
Three libraries (30,000 books in the main one) with 23 computers and wifi access available 24 hours a day.

Accommodation: Almost all students live in. Some rooms are en-suite. Students don't pay rent in the holidays but have to skidaddle as a result or try and get permission to stay on a pay per night basis. All rooms are networked but heating and lightning are charged separately. Time to stock up on the thermals. A canteen covers most food needs but there are some self-catering facilities. Shared kitchens vary from the well-equipped to 'what's a microwave?' The nightly candlelit formal meals are among Cambridge’s finest and only cost four quid. Four 'Superhalls' a term charge a bit more in return for pre and post dinner drinks. CCTV, secure day and night bike parking and day and night porters. 

• Nurse, free rape alarms, condoms and pregnancy tests.

• International, environmental and ethics and LGBT officers; equal opps rep.

• Assorted scholarships available.

   

FAMOUS ALUMNI
Katie Derham (ITN newsreader); Julian Fellowes (actor and screenwriter); Bamber Gascoigne (quizmaster, writer); Gavin Hastings (former Scottish rugby captain); Charles Kingsley (author); CS Lewis (Narnia man); Charles Stewart Parnell (19th-century Irish nationalist); Samuel Pepys (diarist); Alan Rusbridger (editor, The Guardian); Michael Redgrave (actor); John Simpson (BBC reporting action-man).