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This summer, me and 5 of my friends went on the most stereotypically coming-of-age holiday possible. Comprised of 3 film students, a ballet dancer and two Oxford biologists (yay!), we had the makings of a semi-functional group of 3 couples that could just about bear to live in each other’s pockets for two weeks straight. […]
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As an overseas student, there are a few options of how to spend the Christmas holiday: traveling, going home or preparing for exams. If you don’t want a complicated and expensive trip, or don’t feel like studying, there is another option you can try — joining a host family. The whole process is quite simple, […]
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Queen’s probably wouldn’t be your first stop on a spooky ghost tour of Oxford. Its 18th century facade looks relatively baby-faced in contrast to the gothic walls which line the High Street. The exterior you see today, however, belies a rich medieval heritage which can still be explored beneath the surface. Drawn to one of […]
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Cornwall: the land of sun, sea and Cornish pasties! That’s what it is for four months of the year, at least. Between June and September, Cornwall puts on its best show of being a cream tea-fueled paradise just a six hour drive from London. Now, imagine living there – year round. Suddenly, six hours from […]
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Remember the Calais jungle? Ever since it was officially shut down in October 2016, the refugee crisis only 26 miles away has blissfully drifted out of our heads, replaced by more fun, fresh topics like Brexit and ‘thank u, next’. However, two years on, there are still thousands of people living in makeshift mini-camps in […]
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Image Credit: Lucie Blackman Trust When I became Features Editor at the beginning of December, my first thought was ‘Great! I can write a travel piece on New Zealand’. On the 2nd of December I set off from Newcastle for Auckland, a two day journey. When I left the UK, Grace had already been murdered; […]
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Image Credit: Erica Yokoyama In Japan, people typically associate the advent of Christmas with a litany of ads by KFC for their various Christmas deals, which occupy commercial breaks all day long. Immediately after Halloween, all retail stores play Mariah Carey on repeat, and the already bright lights of Tokyo are intensified with festive displays. […]
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Image Credit: Erica Yokoyama “In the current climate, where populism is attacking not only the political elite, anybody with an education is now being classified as an elite and it is particularly having impacts on things like art, theatre, and the sciences.” Last Friday, November 17th, these powerful introductory remarks struck those attending the lecture […]
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Image Credit: Twitter Last week, a news story caused shockwaves on Twitter, titled ‘Cambridge students reject Remembrance Day’. That’s just one article, but if you Google it, you’ll see about seven with near-identical wording, all from moderate to far-right-wing papers. Here’s the thing, though. This phrasing is extremely misleading. So what actually happened? A group of […]
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Image Credit: Kimberly Glassman It is never too late to start over and re-organise yourself nearing the end of term. Though I originally believed (and maybe took for granted) that bullet journaling had been around for a while as an ongoing millennial note-taking and organisation method (I mean, it is all over YouTube and Instagram if […]
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Image Credit: Erica Yokoyama Life in Oxford can sometimes feel overwhelming, especially towards the end of the term with impeding essays due and upcoming exams tying us to the desk. For anyone who needs an hour break from their nerve-racking days, Oxford SU has graced us with what some might describe as a puppy miracle […]
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Image Credit: James Cashman Please note that this article contains explicit discussion of anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts. My mental health had been poor for a year and had deteriorated significantly in the weeks and months leading up to my first term at Oxford in October 2017. I experienced panic attacks and clinical anxiety and […]
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Image Credit: Aleksandra Cywinska Onyx Magazine celebrated the launch of its inaugural issue on 18 October 2018, with the mandate to be a magazine created by and for black students at the University of Oxford. The first issue of Onyx contains 88 pages filled to the brim with poetry, art, and articles thematically linked to […]
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Image Credit: Flicker Guo-Sheng Liu was formerly co-chair of the SU LGBTQ+ Campaign, BME Representative of the LGBTQ+ Society, LGBTQ+ Representative at Lincoln College, committee member of the SU Campaign for Racial Awareness and Equality and It Happens Here campaign. Racism operates beyond the individual. Racism is a system of beliefs, power, and privileges. Racism […]
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Image Credit: Michael Gribben Black History Month has just ended, and very few people can claim to know much about the contribution that black people have made to this country. Even fewer still, can claim to know that the black presence dates back centuries, and in fact thousands of years. Yet black people are still […]
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Image Credit: Kimberly Glassman What are the conditions that allow us to use and store knowledge? What supports (both physical and otherwise) do we use to access this knowledge? Moreover, how has this narrative changed in our age of new media digitisation? Joanna Vestey’s Conditions of Knowledge (2018) exhibition at the North Wall Arts Centre […]
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Image Credit: Kimberly Glassman On Wednesday 25 October 2018, Dr. Bert Hansen, author of Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America (2009) came to Green Templeton College as this year’s McGovern Lecturer on the history of medicine (endowed by the late Dr John McGovern […]
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Image Credit: Wikipedia I had come across The Science Gallery’s motto, “Where art and science collide,” months before I officially made the move to England. As an art historian and curator, this short statement had me wondering what kind of experiences one could expect to have in an exhibition space that brings art and science into […]
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Image credit: Facebook Yotam Vaknin is from Israel pursuing his MSc in Physics. One evening during my second week at Oxford, my flatmate explained to me how to read the little pictures on the stove that illustrates to which stove each switch is connected to. You might expect that getting accepted to Oxford would suggest I am […]
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