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./~ I was looking for an offer
And then I found an offer
And heaven knows I'm miserable now ~\. - The Smiths, paraphrased.

The good news: Churchill gave me an offer. (But hold on, because anyone offering me congratulations at this point is likely to find themselves on the wrong end of a very sharp pointy stick.)

If you're comfortable with such things, imagine a liberal sprinkling of vicious swear words through the next section.

The bad news: They want *1,2* in STEP II and III. (In case you're unfamiliar with the vaugrities of the Cambridge system, that means 'stupidly high grades on utterly evil and horrible and generally bad-news maths papers'.)

Excuse me while I storm around and use various forms of a certain word beginning with 'f' an awful lot.

It didn't help that my parents decided it would be a lovely idea to wake me up and wave said envelope of doom in my face, forcing me to open it and in fact actually say 'Bloody hell, they want one,two?' in the presence of said parents, then burst into tears, due to being rather insufficiantly psychologically prepared in my half-awake state. They were lucky my exclamation didn't contain any stronger language.

I am not, currently, a particularly happy Chessypig.

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I am reasonably certain that waking you to deal with high-stress things like possible offers and rejections is illegal; I know for a fact that it is illegal to expect you to display unnatural states of glee over said offers when you are 1) not awake and 2) now subject to evil tests and papers in order to actually *have* the offer in any useable form. You may so inform your parents.

And don't worry about differences between US and UK law on this one -- I am reliably informed that this is a natural law, subject to enforcement by God Himself. They've been warned, so No Second Chances.

If I had any middle finger icons, I would loan them to you for the duration; being under the gun for high scores on horrible tests takes all the fun out of feeling smug because Cambridge made you an offer.

Oh, smplmn sends his condolences, not his congratulations; he says if Cambridge hadn't made you an offer you could have slept longer and wouldn't have to take any "stupid tests."