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Image description: Hi everyone, and a belated welcome to Oxford to anyone who is attending their first term here! I’m really glad to be back, and among seeing very few familiar faces (*pretentious voice* ‘Oh, didn’t you know I suspended and worked from home, daahling?’) I have made some wonderful new friends, including a few […]
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Bronwyn Riani has returned and is ready to give back to the good folks of Oxford. Submit your question, query, issue or problem to our resident Agony Aunt who will provide pearls of wisdom and gems of advice. Topics can range from should you get that nose piercing to how to deal with a mountain […]
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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 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: 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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Image description: newspaper clippings with the words ‘agony aunt’ written in block letters. For many, 8th week is a period where work slows down and they can piss away their time going on Wikipedia deep-dives about the supercontinent Pangea, or in non-pandemic days, getting thoroughly shit-faced at every beer garden situated within the OX postcode. Alas, […]
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Image description: newspaper clippings with the words ‘agony aunt’ written in block letters. Previous column themes have been tenuous, but this is probably the most tenuous yet. Look, it’s seventh week. We’re pretty tired, both of life and of answering all of your tedious — pardon, extremely important problems. So, we humbly beg our loyal […]
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Image description: newspaper clippings with the words ‘agony aunt’ written in block letters. This week, the Agony Aunts take on a very complicated flatmate love story and a heinous crime against the college puffa. One perhaps merits more serious attention than the other. The people in my house who also live here are actually living […]
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Image description: newspaper clippings with the words ‘agony aunt’ written in block letters. That’s right, this week we’re tackling the weighty issues head on: sex, alcohol and Married at First Sight Australia? To all those who claimed that this column wasn’t ‘hard-hitting’ or ‘proper journalism’, we hope you take a long hard look at yourselves […]
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Image description: newspaper clippings with the words ‘agony aunt’ written in block letters. In the most tenuous theme that has strung together our column thus far, this week we’re feeling dotty: that is, dissecting one poor soul’s absolutely dotty dream and discussing dotty typing etiquette. Yes, we’re reaching. And yes, you lot are turning our […]
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Image Description: A mix of newspaper cuttings with the words ‘agony aunts’ written in block letters. This week, Elsie and Sonia tackle problems relating to that sweet sweet Oxford lifestyle. Surprisingly, neither concern those weird subfusc gown streamers or the fear of bumping into everyone you know at the Magdalen Street Tesco. I feel like […]
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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: Collage of newspapers and a type writer, with the words ‘Agony Aunts’ in purple. BACK FOR HILARY TERM: The Oxford Student have two new Agony Aunts! Falling in love with your flatmate? Addicted to the Pret coffee subscription? Failed to read anything from your reading list before 2am? Never heard back from that […]
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Got any troubles, worries, concerns, or heartaches? Send them to the Dean of Hearts by filling out this anonymous form. “Dear Dean of Hearts, I spent the year sleeping through my college JCR committee, I was only missing the president. Any ideas on how to chirpse the JCR pres in time for a post lockdown shag?” JCR […]
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