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Image description: scrabble tiles spelling out stay apart Picture the scene. You’ve been on a couple of dates, you’ve kissed, you’ve made tentative movements towards starting a relationship. Things are exciting. And then, just as you’re in the beginning stages of falling in love, coronavirus rears its ugly head. You go home for the Easter holidays […]
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This week, Elsie and Sonia combat your pandemic-related perils. That being said, we still don’t know how to properly snog with masks on. Please stop asking. Met a really nice girl just before we both went home for Xmas. We were going to go out before tier 4 hit. We message occasionally, but not very […]
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Image description: Outline of an adult shouting at a child and a parent helping a child working at a desk Content Warning: Physical punishment It is most often our parents who guide us through at least the first few years of our existence. For better or worse, they can leave a deep impression within us. […]
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Image description: An open book and a hot drink with a slice of orange in it Whilst you may not be one of the 3% of people in the UK who suffer from SAD, or, Seasonal Affective Disorder, the shorter, darker, rainier days of the UK winter can be a real bummer – especially at […]
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Image description: blue smoke Fifth Week Blues (fĭfth wēk blooz͞) pl.n . The burnout or unhappiness conventionally experienced by the students of Oxford during the fifth week of term. fifth week blues (fĭfth wēk blooz͞) pl.n . The burnout and unhappiness I experienced in the fifth week of term. One of the things I find […]
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You laugh with your friends about the evils of capitalism and get drunk off your face discussing progressive ideals. You miss a day of sixth form to attend a climate change rally and of course you post a black box on Instagram. You’re such a good person that you would even sign a petition about […]
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We all know that universities are rife with toxic productivity. But, much as we’ve all come across it at some point, that doesn’t mean that it always takes the same form. It’s hardly surprising that Oxford has toxic productivity. It’s an undercurrent of studying that we all know is here and yet are reluctant to […]
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When the first lockdown was announced in the UK early this year there was a lot of turmoil, to say the least. Many of us were living away from family and friends, some even didn’t have housemates to keep them company. I for one was very fortunate enough to live with four others, and I […]
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Image description: Christmas market in Oxford at night – market stalls on Broad Street surrounded by crowds of people and Christmas lights. For me, Michaelmas term has always been a bit of a difficult term to get into. While it marks the start of an exciting new academic year with new and returning students joining […]
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I lost a bet a little less than a month ago. When asked if I thought we were headed for a local lockdown, I answered, half sarcastically, ‘I give it five days.’ No bolt from the blue came in five days’ time — the winner of the bet was duly rewarded, and I have since […]
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The opinions in this article relate to the personal experience of the author Oxford has always had a reputation for being inaccessible and elitist. From societies like the Bullingdon Club to the trope of the Tory PPE student, this reputation is not entirely unfounded. And coming from a public school like Westminster, I was ashamed […]
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Image description: Two cooking pots on top of a rusty metal shelf with a kitchen towel hanging in the background There is a common trend online whenever the topic of food poverty re-enters the public consciousness in this country, and it is utterly lamentable. Condescending commentators online, many of whom have never experienced abject poverty, […]
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It’s been more than half a year of getting used to life during a global pandemic – or rather, half a year of collective anxiety, socially distant loneliness, and spoiled plans. The hope offered by a summer of relaxed rules and good-mood weather seems to have been snatched away again by rising cases and the […]
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In the context of Black Lives Matter, the #MeToo movement, the refugee crisis and countless other events, social media activism has been at an all-time high. Individuals, mostly teenagers, sign petitions, share content and urge people to donate online. Some argue this is unsustainable and is merely “slacktivism”, but there is great potential for this […]
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Don’t get me wrong, I’m a sucker for a night out. I dreamt in lockdown of Fever’s fluffy faux-velvet walls, those sweaty mirrors dripping with condensation, those unexpectedly Bacchic Tuesday nights in Michaelmas and Hilary. As great as it was to actually have a fully-fledged social life in my first year, full of thrills and […]
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Image description: An Amazon warehouse We have all heard horror stories of how warehouse employees are treated in Amazon – the insanely short lunches, the deprivation of human contact, and the stringent bathroom breaks, just to name a few. This is terrible, but the solution is not to stop buying from Amazon. Rather, it is […]
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Image Description: Plane taking-off during a sunset As a visiting third-year student from the United States, you might be wondering one of three things: 1. Why are you here? 2. Do you have issues with your country and Trump too? 3. What was your experience of moving to Oxford like? In short, I am studying […]
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Image Description: Sign saying “Open” One of my favourite parts of Freshers’ week last year was arriving at the Freshers’ Fair. I wandered over to the Examination Schools, stepped through the archway and walked into a new world. Every room was full of bustling people stopping at different stalls to sign up for societies and […]
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Image Description: Collage of some of the OxCGRT coders in a Zoom-like format. COVID-19 has undoubtedly wreaked havoc upon the world as we know it, with not a single individual unaffected. From travel, work, uni, everyday activities, to even face-to-face interactions, so much of what was once familiar and ‘normal’ has been taken away from […]
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