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As the days started to blur into one, it was rather a shock to open my emails and see a message from our JCR President, welcoming us back for Trinity term. ‘Is that really how long it’s been now?’ I thought first, wondering where all those weeks had gone. My second thought was an altogether […]
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Bethan Roberts reflects on the stress of collections As everyone knows, the best way to start a term at Oxford is with a healthy burst of exam stress. At least it must be, since every term begins with a collection. As I start my final year, I still do not understand collections. As we all […]
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Barely a day went by over the Christmas vacation when there wasn’t an Oxfess agonising over collections, asking whether they matter, what will happen if we fail, how we should prepare for them. Instead of Christmas being a time for rest and recuperation from a hectic Michaelmas, the vacation becomes a time for panic to […]
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Last year, during my much-awaited Christmas vac break, I saw a Facebook status which really hit home. A fellow fresher had posted, twinned with a “feeling frustrated” emoji, the following words- “I don’t quite understand what vacation stands for, in Oxford terms – it surely must stand for the action of vacating our rooms, rather […]
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Continue ReadingA member of staff at University College has accidentally emailed all undergraduates the names and marks of almost 50 students who received “poor results” in Michaelmas term collections. They intended to send students the Hilary collections timetable in an Excel document, but inadvertently included a tab disclosing the results of students who underperformed in the […]
Continue ReadingCollections are just so not a thing. Wearing a gown for a mock exam on a Saturday morning. What was that bullshit? The most frustrating thing about them though was that they made 0th week a hoon-free zone, you dedicated little so-and-so. But once you’d sat under the righteous glare of your sexually-frustrated junior dean […]
Continue ReadingThe paper’s first debate of Trinity, as everyone begins to gear up for exams. But could the university not be assessing us better than this?
Continue ReadingThe Olympics. With the opening ceremony less than 36 hours away, all eyes are turned to the London stadium and the international athletes, who over the next few weeks will push themselves to breaking point in the hope of taking home the ultimate prize – a gold medal. Whilst many of us were unlucky enough […]
Continue ReadingCorpus students will have their Easter vacation curtailed by two days to make way for the royal wedding. Prince William and Kate Middleton, whose engagement was announced in November last year, are due to be wed on Friday 29th April – the date earmarked for Trinity collections. In an email to the JCR, Senior Tutor […]
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