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Aside from its love of tradition and a collection of overblown tales of raucous drinking societies, libraries are up there with what Oxford is best known for, and chances are, at least some point during your studies, you’ll find yourself manically rushing towards one after realising that a)your essay really is due in THIS Thursday, […]
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I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say I had some of my happiest and most challenging moments in my first year at Oxford. I’ve felt both fully in my element, and very far away from home. I won’t pretend I’ve been through anything like the hardships I know that many people face; I’m sure […]
Continue ReadingYou open the envelope, it’s everything you wanted it to be, and it secures your place at one of the world’s oldest, most elite universities. Pride is what you should be feeling; you’ve done extremely well, and that’s nothing to be scoffed at. Rejoice in your ability to memorize information, read around your subjects, and […]
Continue ReadingSo I’ll admit it: I was a 2012 denier. And no, I’m not talking about the Mayan predictions that lead to almost $800,000,000 in box office takings for Sony pictures. 2 years ago today, while (what felt like) the rest of the country languished in post-Olympic blues, vowing half-heartedly to take up volleyball/fencing/{insert marginal sport […]
Continue Reading“Are you nervous?” asked my mum as we drove to Birmingham airport. I didn’t really have an answer because, truthfully, I hadn’t given a great deal of thought to the fact that just four days after returning from Oxford, I was to work as an au pair in the South of France for a […]
Continue ReadingCongratulations. You made it. The denial that life extends past August can no longer be tolerated. The countdown to university begins and nightmares of being imprisoned in Ikea by a scary tutor because you didn’t buy the right bed sheet become all the more frequent, whilst your parents cry ‘WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO […]
Continue ReadingAugust 2013: the tiny flashes of decent summer weather and the blurry vision of a post-results night hangover are fading away in equal measure, and the renewed perspective that this brings is hardly consoling. To my left, a pile of untouched books from the reading list grows ever taller with each Amazon delivery, and, turning […]
Continue ReadingDespite not being the most famous of cities, compared with the likes of Paris, Budapest or Berlin, this stunning Belgian city is full of surprises, and with flights to Brussels taking little more than 45 minutes, Antwerp is a tempting alternative to some of the more mainstream city break locations. Follow these simple guidelines to […]
Continue ReadingHaving been running now for 52 years, spanning 43 series and upwards of 1000 teams, it seems fair to say that University Challenge is almost as much of a national institution as the Tower of London. However, while we addicts of the series can end up spending a total of almost 14 hours watching it […]
Continue ReadingSo, no one’s saying Oxford is claustrophobic except your Tutor who insists on prescribing regular walks through Port Meadow. But whatever the diagnosis, it is intense and we have to remember, as we go about our ‘elitist’ Oxford lives, that it’s not all about the living, it’s about finding the space to breathe and appreciating […]
Continue ReadingHaving spent most of my childhood despising my parents for what I saw as the forgivable double-sin of a) not being Swedish and b) not having, on realising a) immediately emigrated to a utopic Swedish city to safeguard the future happiness and bilingualism of their offspring I decided something needed to change. Would my three […]
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