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Image Description: people sitting at a wooden table with various laptops and gadgets The past 18 months have shaken the traditional idea of a 9 to 5 working week. With the concepts of hybrid working or working from home now becoming a full-time reality for millions of people, a skilled job has never seemed so […]
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Image description: gold bitcoin superimposed upon computerised background with graphs showing share prices Modern history has borne witness to several major milestones in the evolution of trade and commerce. With emerging technologies shifting civilization in new and unforeseeable directions, finance seems ever in the wake of a digital remodelling. In the last decade, we have […]
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Image Description: a brown gavel with a shadow against a white backdrop It’s been a while since the papers were flooded with images of camps in Greece, proclaiming there was a “refugee crisis” which was to define the European political landscape of 2015 and shape immigration policy decisions for years to come. But what is […]
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Image description: A cartoon figure holding a sign saying ‘Agony Aunt’ stood in a green field with a pink flower. Welcome, welcome one and all to this week’s agony aunt session with yours truly, Bronwyn. I’m writing this while “tired in upper old bod,” as I texted my sister, which she thought was a way […]
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Image description: an array of red plastic party cups for imbibing cheap wine such as Echo Falls This time two weeks ago I would’ve been hard pushed to explain to you what on earth an Oxford Crewdate entails: a social bonding experience? an opportunity for members of a crew to pair off into a blind […]
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Image Description: the YouTube search page, reading ‘YouTube,’ ‘Home,’ and ‘Trending’ If you have ever dared to enter the quagmire of online political discourse, you may well have heard the term ‘BreadTube’. In short, BreadTube is a group of leftist Youtubers who wield massive influence on the platform, consistently racking up tens of millions of […]
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Image Description: the front of Buckingham Palace With 4.6 million followers on Twitter and 10.3 million on Instagram, the Royal Family have undeniably built up a large online audience in the last decade since the palace started using social media as a tool for communication. This is before we even start considering the social media […]
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Image description: sunrise over Port Meadow Bubble… bubble…breathe. Arms stretching out, thwacking, slashing, gliding. You see nothing except your pale hands pushing down into the black void below. Your freezing brain seems to thrash around in your skull as you rotate to breathe on either side. Long weeds creep up from below to wrap themselves […]
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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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