Girton MCR Committee Blog

Dear Graduates,

I’d like to bring to your attention this special event arranged by the Roll Office for graduating students. Get your tickets now as spaces are limited!

What: ‘Life After Girton’
When: Thursday, 15th November at 6.00pm
Where: Old dining hall, across from the Stanley Library
Cost: £5 (pre-drinks, dinner including wine). Tickets on sale at the porter’s lodge.

More details about the event can be found here and the speaker profiles are available here. Hope to see a lot of you at the event!

Best regards,

Yiannis

Hello everyone,

Many people people have been asking for additional information about Cambridge, how/when to get here and how to prepare themselves. The following freshers’ guides contain more information than you ever wanted to read :D, so I hope you enjoy them!

• International Freshers’ Guide
• A-Z Guide for International Students
• CUSU Freshers’ Guide

Best wishes,

Yiannis

Dear new Graduates,

I’m delighted to welcome you all to Cambridge and Girton College! This must be a very exciting and demanding time as you prepare for your arrival at Cambridge.

I have included links to several documents I trust you’ll find useful and that will hopefully ease your transition to a new culture and community during the first couple of weeks:

- A copy of the Graduate guide which you will also receive in print. (link)
- A copy of our provisional freshers week event card with activities we have organised for you. (link)
- The Girton College prospectus. (link)
- Printable maps (link)
For early arrivals, it will be worth identifying yourselves to the porters, checking your pigeonholes at Wolfson Court frequently, and looking around for posters for MCR events.

Have a safe trip to Cambridge and do not hesitate to contact me, or our
Vice President, Karenjit Clare (kc331@cam.ac.uk), should there be anything we can do to help with your transition to Cambridge.

I look forward to meeting you all in October.

With my best wishes,

Ioannis (Yiannis) Baltopoulos
Girton MCR President

Dear All,

I just wanted to say that from today your new MCR President is Ioannis Baltopoulos. He will be assisted by Karenjit Clare, the new Vice-President. Tom and I are now officially stepping down from the positions and we wish the new MCR team all the best for this coming year. I am sure they will do a great job.

I would like to thank all those that have worked with us over the past year, and those that have supported us on many occasions. It has been a pleasure representing you as much as I could and seeing many of you on various occasions. Moreover, I would like to thank the MCR Committee for their hard work and devotion to our common cause, but also for being so friendly and approachable. All this wouldn’t have been possible without them. There are many outstanding issues that we are currently working on with College, and the transition from one MCR team to the other will not happen without these pending issues, which we need to resolve as early as possible to make Graduate life at Girton a bit better.

Right, time has come for me to step down from the stage J

Enjoy your summer everyone!

Alexios

Dear All,
The moment you have all been waiting for has arrived!! It is time to vote for a new MCR President and Vice-President.

There are 2 candidates running for MCR President this year. They are, in alphabetical order with their respective manifestos:

• Ioannis Baltopoulos (Manifesto)
• Donna Harris (Manifesto)

Running for MCR Vice-President:

• Karenjit Clare (Manifesto)

You will find a link to their respective manifestos next to their name. PLEASE READ THEM.
Then, cast your vote on: http://www.srcf.ucam.org/girtonmcr/e-vote/
There is also a link on the main page of the MCR Website that you may use. The voting starts at 12 noon TODAY and will remain open until midnight on TUESDAY 3^rd July. If there are any problems or any issues with the voting system, please get in touch with me (az254@cam.ac.uk). Needless to say, I will be sending out reminders throughout the week…

Best of luck to the candidates!

Let the voting begin!!

Alexios

Hi all,

Just to let you know that we’ve set the MCR dinner dates for this term:

• Wednesday 2nd May
• Wednesday 23rd May
• Wednesday 13th June

Please write those down although I’ll remind you to book for them every time.

Apart from that, we’re having an exchange with Selwyn and one with Emma. We will go to Selwyn on May 4th and we’ll probably go to Emmanuel on the 14th or 29th (I’ll let you know).

I hope to see many of you there.

Diego

The MCR began talks with the college this past week about a potential compromise for not having a regular bar. We have raised the idea of having beer and wine available for purchase during dinner time in the cafeteria, with the possibility of holding the cafeteria open later once a week so that people could relax with a drink a little past the normal 7:30 closing time. If you have any other suggestions or comments on this please let your MCR representatives know. We will keep you posted on this initiative.

Evan

Please note the dates for the 3 MCR dinners for this term!

Wednesday 31st January
Wednesday 21st February
Wednesday 7th March

Don’t forget to sign up at the porter’s lodge at Wolfson Court for these… See you there!

Diego

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