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On the 25th March 2020, St Peter’s College’s Jack Solomon and Merton College’s Julia Willemyns’s ‘Find My Pasta’ app was launched for all intents and purposes in order to help quell consumer frenzy and direct the public to available commodities. With Boris Johnson limiting us to just one walk a day from the 23rd March […]
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Molly Archer-Zeff questions Airbnb’s sustainability Central location, great atmosphere, bustling nightlife. These were among the attractive list of offerings an Airbnb in Athens lured me with. What the description perhaps conveniently forgot to include was the ideal location to witness the tensions that were sizzling between the citizens of Athens and Airbnb. The first thing […]
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Emily Macleod shares her experience as an Independent Student Not many people know what an independent student is and it’s pretty difficult to define as there are so many situations that can lead to a student being financially independent of their family. According to stand alone, the main reasons for a student under 25 to […]
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Joe Rattue recounts his summer spent teaching on a Chinese summer camp Last January, I sat, bored and uninspired, looking through my email inbox, at a total loss as to how I should spend my summer. Somewhere between the productive internships and numerous volunteer opportunities, the words “Teaching Project in China” caught my eye. “Seems […]
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Oz Myerson discusses the dating event taking Oxford by storm this week The Oxford Marriage Pact is back, fuelling discussion, debate, and hope among a large proportion of Oxford students this week. In the run up to Valentine’s day, it has been easy to spot many events geared towards hopeful lovers – The Oxford Marriage […]
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Chloé Agar reflects on assumptions made from an accent If you met me in the street and heard my accent, you wouldn’t guess where I’m from. You would probably ask me if I’m from Oxford. But, while I’ve been studying here for more than my fair share of time, I’m certainly not local. In fact, […]
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Martha Storey questions the depiction of Oxford University by its student youtubers… Oxford has long since been in the public eye when it comes to universities, but in recent years the mythology surrounding out university has found a new manifestation– the phenomenon of the Oxford youtuber. Creating mainly academic based content, a teenage audience are […]
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Joshua Boddington discusses the revival of the Oxford Archaeological society. Bringing things back to life is what archaeologists do. Not in the literal sense, but we make history tangible again through talks, exhibits, fieldwork, museums etc. In 2019, the Oxford University’s Archaeological Society turned 100 years old. We make history tangible again through talks, exhibits, […]
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Jackie Brown reflects on the climate crisis close to home. On my journey home this Christmas Vacation, my plane descended into a landscape I no longer recognised. An unfamiliar sky where clouds had been replaced by a thick, impenetrable blanket that seemed to be suffocating everything beneath it. A blurred, dark outline of a city […]
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Elis Harrington explores the merging of reality and fantasy in the city of Oxenfurt From Inspector Morse to Alice in Wonderland, Oxford has been the inspiration for countless works of art, literature and film. This hardly comes as a surprise, I’m sure. Even when taking a dreary glance out of a library window in what […]
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As every advert, film, and song reminds us: Christmas is a magical time, and there is so much to do (and so much to buy). You have decorations, music, family reunions and traditions, plenty of food, and of course, presents! Whether you’re celebrating it as a Christian holiday or not, if you’re going to spend this winter in […]
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Sarah Alford explores whether there is any value in rising early. At what point does the night officially turn into morning? We may have our 24 hour clock, but the social constructs are too elusive to be useful. I’d say, regardless of whether it’s light yet or not, the morning only truly starts at the point when […]
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Content Warning: sexual and physical assault, victim-blaming, depression, suicidal ideation When people find out I returned from my year abroad, they naturally ask how it was. I usually enjoy being honest, but here I hesitate to say: “Well, someone did some non-consensual things to me in bed, tried to strangle me, and I ended up […]
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Advertisements for teaching abroad summer camps are a common sight on JCR pages in Hilary and Trinity, with China being one of the most common destinations. That’s how I ended up spending the summer vacation teaching English – I wanted to travel abroad to Asia and saw four weeks teaching in Guangzhou as a fair […]
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As one treks through the vast expanse of Magdalen College’s grounds in the deep dark of November’s winter, one can feel only trepidation. But for what? For feral deer leaping out of the dark? For the hidden banks that come out of nowhere and slide you down into a cold, chilly Isis? A blazing inferno around which […]
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As the darkness approaches earlier each evening and the essay crises (or problem sheet calamities – not that I know about those, instead hiding in the depths of the library to study literature) grow more frequent, there’s a glimmer of light in the shape of BBC iPlayer at 8pm every Thursday. You can find me, on a quiet […]
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I went into the Edinburgh Fringe Review without any real expectations. I signed up to do it on a last-minute whim, applied for a travel grant from college, and the next thing I knew I was on the train to Scotland. The concept was appealing: a week sharing a flat in central Edinburgh with a […]
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Living in Oxford sometimes feel like living in a bubble: the big quads, formal halls and black-tie events seem to bring us ever further away from reality. I wished so many times that I could go back to the normal-looking, charming streets back home with shops that don’t just sell souvenirs or over-priced food. But […]
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From cannon-bluster to the Turl Street dash, and from recognition in the Daily Mail in 1979 to more modern recognition as a particularly fierce rivalry on Wikipedia, the Turl Street rivalry between Exeter and Jesus is rather exciting, as far as college rivalries go. Compare the pitiful ‘wars’ of recent times exemplified by the petty […]
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