Amina Lounas
Image Description: a selfie taken in a night club. Freshers week has been and gone, and our inevitable freshers flu...
Elsie Clark
Image Description: Two Bubbles separating two groups of individuals 1. THE ARRIVAL The day had come – after a year...
Alice Spiers, Graduate There is a particular breed of fresher roaming the streets of Oxford this October. One that often...
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Emma. It’s the day after your nineteenth birthday, you’re moving to university and you’re terrified. You’re a home bird at...
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The sickening rush of results day is over, and you’ve made it! Congratulations. It’s soon going to start to sink...
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1. The Gap Yah Inbetween long stories about how they built a well in Kenya or chundered everywhere in Budapest,...
Claire Sims
Until the moment I arrived at Oxford, I thought I was ready. I was the classic overzealous fresher; I diligently...
Stage Editors
Welcome to What’s On Stage?, our new weekly update showcasing the editors’ picks for what to see in Oxford each...
Eleanor Grange
Before all of you bright-eyed and bushy-tailed freshlings descend upon Oxford for Freshers’ Week, what to wear to the inevitable...
Eleanor Grange
It’s the first day of Freshers’ Week. Among the many things you’re presented with, baffled and bewildered, is your home...
Lily Sheldon
You laugh with your friends about the evils of capitalism and get drunk off your face discussing progressive ideals. You...
Kwabena Osei
Image Description: Statue facing upwards at Bodleian Libraries Put quite simply, Freshers’ Week 2020 for me was… intense. So much...
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Darius Latham-Koenig
Ah, the Oxford clubbing scene. A veritable assortment of packed floors, questionable music transitions, and suspiciously cheap drinks. Despite what you may have heard...
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Danny Cowan
Before I started at Oxford, I was considering taking up rowing. My reasons were not the usual ones. Due to...
Emma-Jane Hampsheir-Gill
Every autumn, universities up and down the country open their doors to new students excited by the thought of independent...
Dear Freshers, You will probably have been dreaming of the wonders of Freshers’ Week since your UCAS offer changed from...
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After all of the stress, you’ve made it. The exams are done, the results good; your parents have gushingly informed...
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Emily Bootle
With the looming prospect of Freshers’ Week in all its overhyped glory comes the even darker thought of its fancy...
Lucinda Toole
As you pack for your first (or third!) year of university and prepare for Freshers’ Week, it can be hard...
