They thought it was eccentric to apply for Cambridge and, now, one can see them walking naturally on the streets of the British village to the research labs. Forty Romanian young men that really ran up against science have separate opinions about Romania. Almost half of them would come back into the country, the other half hesitate thinking about this.
In Cambridge, the University village near London, one can easily find Romanian students, because they are almost forty. They are studying at different colleges, but they all gather around in pubs and discuss about the political instability in the country or about their day by day lives. Before leaving Romania, they saw Cambridge as a hard to reach target, but, here, they realized that being a student at Cambridge is very natural. It is not an eccentric thing to wish to study at the prestigious British University. It only takes a few minutes to find out a lot of legends about Cambridge. The Romanians we met told us a few. We found out about the Sighs' Bridge which is told to have accompanied the students to their exams, about the Mathematicians' Bridge which is told to have been built by a group of scientists without using any nails, which determined them to disassembly it to find out the formula, but they didn't succeed. We also found out about the richest college in Cambridge, Trinity College, which is told to be the third British financial institution, after the Quinn and the Church. We also found out about the rivalry with Oxford which takes place on the Thames every year, competition which Cambridge won this year.
"ONE'S THIRD EYE OPENS HERE". Mircea Iliescu studies at Pembroke College, founded in 1347, and he believes he was lucky to get here. He studied Biology for two years in Bucharest, and, after that, he got a scholarship at Edinburgh were he worked with the person holding the license for
