Congratulations to Perrez, Year 12 student, for being selected to take part in the first Corpus Black Brilliance Residential! This new programme, which took place on the 1^st and 2^nd April, enabled participants to immerse themselves into what academic, and non-academic, life is like at Cambridge University and Corpus Christi College.

Perrez got a chance to attend lectures at the McCrum Lecture Theatre on a variety of topics, including a Q&A with the President of the University of Cambridge Afro-Caribbean Society and other prominent members of Cambridge Black Girls Space and Haroon Ahmed Societies, a Chemistry Lecture with Dr Chatura Goonesinghe and Ana Luisa Ferreira Granja on the ever expanding world of catalysis, as well as an inspirational speech from Corpus Alum Dr Shirley Bekker on how where you come from doesn't have to define you.

There was also a three-course formal dinner, along with sleeping and eating like a Cambridge student! Punting on the River Cam and walking around the city helped soak in the atmosphere.

As Perrez comments "This residential truly made Cambridge seem like a realistic choice for me, and has only motivated me to work even harder to get those top grades to apply to such a world-class elite institution. Furthermore, I survived my first-ever Cambridge Supervision! Supervisions/tutorials are the small group tutor sessions that make Oxbridge so unique, and so to go from initial awkward silence to free-flowing conversation and debating toe-to-toe with a PhD student about Huntington's Disease (what our pre-reading was about) was truly refreshing for me. Thanks to Corpus Christi for such a wonderful experience and for continuing to strengthen your ties with Latymer, as well as to Ms Owen, my Biology teacher, who made me aware of this opportunity in the first place."