By Olivia Williams PUBLISHED: 12:40 EST, 16 June 2013 | UPDATED: 07:16 EST, 17 June 2013 The annual alcohol-fuelled Suicide Sunday celebrations marking the end of Cambridge University's exam season got off to their customary raucous start with a cardboard boat race. In a parody of the more sober Oxford and Cambridge boat race on the Thames, students took to their makeshift vessels to row down the River Cam. Famed for being a day of carousing and drunken antics, the undergraduates stripped down to shorts and bikinis for a splash about on the River Cam. Scroll down for video
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Suicide Sunday marks the end of Cambridge's grueling exam season
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Overjoyed students relaxed with a drunken cardboard boat race on the Cam
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A surprising number of soggy vessels survived the 500-metre journey
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