Hi, I'm Olivia, I'm a third-year HSPS
student at Queens'. So HSPS is the Human,
Social and Political Sciences course at
Cambridge in which you study sociology,
anthropology, politics, and international
relations in your first year and then
you specialise as you go on. I think it's
great to study HSPS at Queens' specifically
because you have quite a few students in
every year who do HSPS which means you
get to bounce off ideas with everyone
and if you're struggling with something
someone can help you out. We also have a
HSPS dinner every year which is really
nice so that all the years get to see
each other and you interact with
the fellows who are in HSPS as well.
I think what's nice once you get to
third year in HSPS is that you get to
specialise in what you're really
interested in so I've chosen for example
to do quite a lot of regional politics
and it has been nice to see how stuff that
I've learned in previous years really
comes to relate to what you're learning
now so it all really builds up so that
by the end you've got a great kind of
foundation knowledge of society the
world whatever you're most interested in
within that. I really liked that at Queens'
everyone lives on site for three years
because it means that Queens' really
builds up a nice undergraduate community.
The bar and buttery and all of these
different kind of college places are
always quite lively which is really nice
because it means you get to know everyone a lot faster.
