Hi everyone, I'm Zainab Haider.
I'm from Bradford.
I'm currently a second year
Psychological and Behavioral Science student
here at Cambridge.
I'm at Newnham College
and this is my
day in the life.
Always found Newnham as 
a place very, very empowering.
Walking through the gardens
and knowing that you know
hundreds and thousands
of women before me
who've done so
many amazing things
have walked through
the same corridors,
have walked through the
same gardens
and I'm part of that now!
And I've signed 
my name in a book
that those women
have as well.
It just makes me feel grateful
every single day that I'm part of that.
So this mosque is
a bit far out,
so it's about half-
an-hour across town,
so I normally cycle
if I'm going to use this.
It's about 20
minutes by bike
but on an every day
kind of aspect
it is a bit more difficult
to find prayer spaces.
We do have a prayer room
at the Sidgwick Site,
which is where the art
students have their lectures,
but for science students
like myself we don't really have
a lot of other provisions.
Colleges have
prayer spaces,
some departments
such as engineering
have prayer spaces available.
A lot of the time, a lot of the
departments are very accommodating,
so I can ask in my
department,
my psychology department,
I'll ask the librarian if I can
pray in one of the small rooms
and they're very happy
to accommodate me for that.
The Friday prayers, it's kind of
like an Islamic Society tradition
that everybody goes to
one of the takeaways
every single week.
So after every single
prayer they go and
yeah, just get a takeaway
every single week on a Friday,
which is quite nice to
have something
to look forward to I
guess every week.
I didn't think that I'd meet
the range people that I've met
at Cambridge, there's so many
opportunities to meet people,
I think the college system
really helps in that and
you just meet people
from across the University
and from all over the country
as well and all over the world even.
It's been nice to meet
people who are like me
but also meet people who
are not like me too.
In Freshers' Week, the 
College did a lot of events
but also the Islamic Society
did a lot of events.
So we had a Freshers'
fortnight
instead of a
Freshers' week
and it was nice because it
extended further than
the College and University
Freshers' Week.
And finding the community 
within those first two weeks,
like I made friends in first
two weeks I still have now
and we bonded within the
first few days of meeting them
and now we're really,
really good friends.
So I think it's really
important to just have a go
at everything that
Cambridge has to offer,
there's so much going on.
Just meeting amazing people
every step of the way
just makes you feel
like you're not alone
and Cambridge is a
community for everyone.
And yeah, I couldn't
be happier.
