Should you work at a Cambridge summer camp?

It’s 2 am on Sunday, 30th June. Most of my friends are peacefully asleep, resting from a long term of studying, while others are out partying and enjoying their summer. But me? I’m in A half-stressed and half-asleep.

Why? Not because I’ve done anything, but because I’m taking a sick student from the summer camp I’m working at to get emergency treatment. At the hospital, the doctors and nurses look at me puzzled: “Are you related to the patient?” they ask me. “No,” I tell them, “I’m a staff member at a summer camp the student is staying at.

” “Oh,” they reply, “I don’t have a box for that, I’ll just put you down as a friend.” This sums up the job of working at a summer camp perfectly: there is no neat box it fits into for types of traditional student summer work, and working at a Cambridge summer camp can only be described as a unique experience. To get a broader understanding of what it’s like to work at a Cambridge summer camp, I caught up with fellow students.

“The role is far more complex than the brief job descriptions often elucidate to” Everyone applied for pretty similar reasons: there’s plenty of summer camp jobs out there, so getting hired isn’t too difficult. On top of this, Sophie, a second year PBS student, told me: “Summer camps tend to compress working hours into a shorter period, and it’s a fixed contract so I am not expected to keep the job over term time.” Meanwhile, Will, a third year natsci, said: “I want.