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Image Description: figurines of a doctor next to a patient in a bed, against a white background It’s October 2019; I have just started a gap year before taking up my deferred place at university. Hopefully, I think, this will be a year of rest and recovery and working with Birmingham Children’s Hospital. At the […]
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Image description: A cartoon figure holding a sign saying ‘Agony Aunt’ stood in a green field with a pink flower. It’s here! It’s the end! I can’t believe it, but we’ve done it. We’ve actually done it. We smashed it, and I’m proud of us for making it through. Let’s appreciate the good times, and […]
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Image description: a woman’s shadow on the floor. Today I found out that I’m autistic. In many ways, I feel happy, relieved in particular. There is a name for my oddities and I’m not alone in having them. There are other feelings too: anger, frustration, some mourning. For two decades I have struggled, and for […]
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Image description: a woman can be seen through a window reading a book alone. It is night outside. There are few things in the world more daunting than the prospect of job-hunting. With Oxford students being amongst the most prolific users of LinkedIn, and with weekly events from the Careers Service about formatting your CV […]
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Image description: Beth and her dog standing on a bridge, looking out onto a snowy scene If there’s one consistency in my life, it’s my desire for a dog. Since I was little, I would buy dog leads and collars for my ‘invisible pet’, storing away chicken bones for the dog I would inevitably have […]
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Image description: A cartoon figure holding a sign saying ‘Agony Aunt’ stood in a green field with a pink flower. Hello everyone. Last week was the week everything changed, and we can enter anyone’s home we choose! Anarchy! Uh, I mean, most of us students still haven’t had the vaccine, and quite a few of […]
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Image description: A happy looking cartoon person standing beside a sign saying ‘Agony Aunt’ and a pink and yellow flower, on a blue and green background. Hello! 🙂 I hope you are having a good term so far, filled with met deadlines and adequate essays/problem sheets. This week I address a wannabe TV chef, train […]
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Image description: Boris Johnson standing behind a podium advertising the UN 2020 climate change conference. The background is blue and features an artistic impression of the Earth. November 2020 was supposed to be the month when the eyes of the world would be on Glasgow for arguably the most important conference on climate change the […]
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Image description: a picture of Bath, taken by Sonia on her travels Early on, I mistook my teenage self for an extrovert. I loved socializing and cracking jokes, and a good date felt like some sort of magic. I wasn’t necessarily bursting with confidence, but I had come to assume that being introverted meant being […]
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Image description: The river in Oxford on a sunny day. Call me a starry-eyed optimist, but this past weekend, it felt like something special was hanging in the air. All throughout Oxford cheerful students were bobbing, bubbling, and bustling around. Shops were open. The High Street heaved. Pub gardens filled with happy customers. The city […]
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Image description: A happy looking cartoon person standing beside a sign saying ‘Agony Aunt’ and a pink and yellow flower, on a blue and green background. Alreet, hens? It’s me, Bronwyn. I’m your new Geordie/Oxford Agony Aunt. I love discussing food, Barbie, and mental health, so this week is pretty on-brand. I hope you are […]
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Image description: A pink paper heart torn in two, on a black background. At 16 I started my first relationship.The relationship became increasingly emotionally abusive. Having been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder the year before, it’s fair to say that my self-esteem was at rock bottom. Having never had a proper relationship before I was […]
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Image description: Buckingham Palace Most hypothetical rulebooks of ‘appropriate’ royal behaviour probably don’t include sitting down with a chat-show host in a garden in California. However, Harry and Meghan have never represented the model image of traditional British monarchy. Their recent televised conversation with Oprah Winfrey – which touched on issues such as personal security, […]
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Image description: a painting of a woman sat on a bed looking out of the window. Universities have neglected year abroad students in the midst of a pandemic, leaving them to negotiate foreign laws and lockdowns by themselves away from home. The holiday period took a toll on the wellbeing of many students. Jake, an […]
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When International Women’s day was first observed in 1911, women (and sympathetic men) were still starving themselves in prisons across the UK and taking to the streets, putting their lives and futures at stake in a long fight for enfranchisement. This year, we’re celebrating the holiday in a world where women have the right to […]
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Image description: newspaper clippings with the words ‘agony aunt’ written in block letters. For many, 8th week is a period where work slows down and they can piss away their time going on Wikipedia deep-dives about the supercontinent Pangea, or in non-pandemic days, getting thoroughly shit-faced at every beer garden situated within the OX postcode. Alas, […]
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Image description: image of dictionary definitions in black and white. “How do I find the vocabulary for what’s rattling around inside my head?” Moved from house to house as a child, Tom Hanks lived a sort of nomadic existence growing up, saying on Desert Island Discs in 2016 that it led to an acute feeling […]
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Image description: a park on a sunny day filled with people walking and cycling together Since Boris Johnson announced England’s roadmap out of lockdown, it feels like the 21st June is all anyone has been able to talk about. Yes, we know that this date is subject to change, but seeing the finish line has […]
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Image description: newspaper clippings with the words ‘agony aunt’ written in block letters. Previous column themes have been tenuous, but this is probably the most tenuous yet. Look, it’s seventh week. We’re pretty tired, both of life and of answering all of your tedious — pardon, extremely important problems. So, we humbly beg our loyal […]
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