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Image Description: Crowds at a festival I took my time to get into the 1975. The phenomenon of their ever-growing fame has been fairly recent in terms of universal recognition. I’ve been exposed to them for a long while though, with my high school friends overflowing with excitement over an album whose title was way […]
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Image Description: An exhibition by Sophia Wee The closure of physical spaces has presented difficulties for students of all subjects, with History students losing the libraries and Chemistry students losing access to labs. But Fine Art students have not just lost access to their studios, they have also lost the opportunity to physically exhibit their […]
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Image description: Hadassah painting in the garden The second instalment of the Student Artist Profile series is with Hadassah Büchner. Hadassah is in her second year of graduate medicine at St. Anne’s. She hopes to combine her love for both medicine and art in the future and her ideal scenario would be working four days a […]
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Image Description: A sustainable clothes shop Summer sales, holiday clothes, new-season equals new wardrobe. Normally, at this time of year, many of us would be taking advantage of student discounts to get that perfect fit for the sunny weather. Instead, clothing sales sunk by 34% in March – a drop easily associated with the lockdown […]
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Image Description: Charli XCX performing on stage Charli XCX has long been known for her obsessive work ethic, pushing herself and their collaborators to their creative limit, often in a short space of time. Her lockdown album how i’m feeling now was written, produced, mixed and released, all within two months, which is a considerable […]
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Image Description: Inside Divinity Schools, Oxford Many of us applied to Oxford with a secret ambition to live our best lives, Brideshead Revisited style. The mental image of spending days punting down the Isis, poring over slab-like books in quirky little pubs and dining in vast, Harry Potter-esque halls seemed all too tempting, thanks to […]
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Image Description: Alice Hackney painting Welcome to the inaugural article of The Oxford Student’s ‘Student Artist Profile’ series. Over the course of the next few weeks, we are hoping to bring awareness to the incredible artists in our midst and highlight Oxford’s promising art scene by allowing artists in our community to speak about themselves […]
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What does the Netflix documentary ‘Becoming’ reveal about Michelle Obama’s current role in a despairing society? ‘Becoming,’ a documentary directed by Nadia Hallgren, follows Michelle Obama on the tour of her eponymous 2018 memoir. After just 15 days, sales of ‘Becoming’ soared, earning the title of the best-selling book in the US for the whole […]
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Image Description: A person reading a book over lunch This week, Sarah Moorhouse asked OxStu contributors to tell us about their favourite pieces of short fiction. Perfect to enjoy over breakfast or a quick tea break, these compelling reads will transport you away from a dreary lockdown lifestyle. Helena Aeberli: Francoise Sagan’s Bonjour Tristesse Francoise […]
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Image description: a shot from ‘First Thing’ music video A discussion with Flora Faulk, an Art History student at St. Peters, on her recent production of the music video for fellow student, Gigi William’s debut EP and single ‘First Thing’. Flora explains how she got into film-making and ways to get involved from a student […]
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Image description: The view from a plane window I had already seen the film upon its theatrical release, yet here I was watching it again on a screen one-hundredth of the size. Dunkirk nonetheless had me transfixed. Christopher Nolan’s masterpiece almost made me forget the uncomfortable economy seat I was in and the ever-present buzz […]
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Image Description: An illustration of Tom pushing the head of Jerry up a hill. Tom and Jerry. The famous Metro-Goldwyn Mayer cartoons that entered our screens for the first time in the 1940s and have continued to dominate the scene ever since then. For those living under a rock, the premise of the series of […]
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Image Description: An old MP3 player My Minecraft account must have been created on April something, 2012. I remember getting together enough money to give a friendly classmate, one of the lucky few to have access to a credit card at that age, to help me purchase the game. Once in a while I still […]
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There are many things to miss about Oxford but one which stands out is time spent in the college bar. Whether it’s to catch up with friends, enjoy a bop or partake in a bar crawl, these sacred havens have been the spots of many a happy hour. But, as with all forms of fun […]
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Image Description: A canal in Venice, Italy If I had a pound for every recent reference to Defoe, Camus and their novels about plague…. Granted, A Journal of the Plague Year and La Peste respectively, are certainly too close to home at the moment. Resorting to history – in this case, its reflection in literature […]
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Book Review: ‘This is London,’ by Ben Judah In A-Level History I was introduced to the well-used quote from L.P. Hartley that ‘the past is a foreign country.’ Yet, at times, it is the present that feels alien. The imperial splendour of the 200-year old buildings on Strand, Drury Lane, Kingsway and Charing Cross Road […]
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Image Description: A DJ’s soundboard The minute the world went into quarantine it became clear that we needed to get very creative with how we kept ourselves entertained. I think we’ve seen and tried it all at this point – Zoom parties, trying and failing to get into podcasts, baking, and a lot of Netflix, […]
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Image description: An illustration of a house inside the Globe Theatre I love going to the theatre. I love lurking around in the foyer, engaging in an intense debate with myself on whether or not that programme is really worth £2. I love finding my seat (or standing space) and flipping through said programme, while […]
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Editor’s note: We are starting a new series – ‘Tutorial Level’ – on people’s favourite games! Even if it’s not the sort of game you’re used to playing, we hope you can appreciate the passion that goes into these articles. Roshan appeals to our nostalgia for offline multiplayer content while castigating the inadequacies of contemporary […]
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