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Life
·11th October 2016

5 Types of Fresher and How to Spot them

1. The Gap Yah Inbetween long stories about how they built a well in Kenya or chundered everywhere in Budapest,...
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·21st September 2017

A letter to my fresher self

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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Features
·4th December 2020

Champagne Activism Turned Sour

Lily Sheldon
You laugh with your friends about the evils of capitalism and get drunk off your face discussing progressive ideals. You...
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·15th September 2011

Freshers’ Fashion Guide

Freshers! What you need to know about fashion at Oxford - a handy guide to the five things you really should bring up, and the one thing you should definitely leave behind
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·12th September 2013

FRESHERS’ WEEK: Beat the Suitcase Squeeze

Lucinda Toole
As you pack for your first (or third!) year of university and prepare for Freshers’ Week, it can be hard...
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Entertainment
·24th August 2013

FRESHERS’ WEEK: The ultimate university shopping list part 2!

Kostas Chryssanthopoulos and Sam Gebreselassie
Earlier this month, the fashion editors at The Oxford Student presented you with their Ultimate University Shopping List. It was...
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Comment
·28th October 2016

Freshers’ Week First Aid Could Save Lives

Emma-Jane Hampsheir-Gill
Every autumn, universities up and down the country open their doors to new students excited by the thought of independent...
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Features
·15th October 2020

From behind the screen to in front: a new perspective to fresher’s week

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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Comment
·16th October 2015

My first week in Oxford: a review

Claire Sims
Until the moment I arrived at Oxford, I thought I was ready. I was the classic overzealous fresher; I diligently...
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·17th August 2017

Rowing at Oxford isn’t scary

Danny Cowan
Before I started at Oxford, I was considering taking up rowing. My reasons were not the usual ones. Due to...
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EntertainmentLife
·28th September 2012

A Freshers’ Week Playlist

Otis Graham
Like many things in life, Freshers’ Week needs a soundtrack, something that’ll bring back the beautiful memories when everything’s over....
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Entertainment
·16th September 2013

Behind the mask of Freshers’ Week fancy dress themes

Eleanor Grange
Before all of you bright-eyed and bushy-tailed freshlings descend upon Oxford for Freshers’ Week, what to wear to the inevitable...
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Features
·15th September 2012

College Cocktails: Drink with pride this Freshers’ Week

Raph Torrance
 As another 0th week approaches and the annual wave of Freshers looms ever closer to the gilded shores of Oxford,...
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Comment
·4th October 2016

Freshers’ Week Ain’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be

Dear Freshers, You will probably have been dreaming of the wonders of Freshers’ Week since your UCAS offer changed from...
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Comment
·4th November 2017

Freshers’ Week: do a few years make a difference?

Alice Spiers, Graduate  There is a particular breed of fresher roaming the streets of Oxford this October. One that often...
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Entertainment
·18th August 2013

FRESHERS’ WEEK: The ultimate university shopping list!

the Fashion Editors
So, you’ve made it into Oxford University. Congratulations. You are the intellectual crème de la crème, the apple of your...
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Entertainment
·2nd September 2013

FRESHERS’ WEEK: How to decorate your new student room

Eleanor Grange
It’s the first day of Freshers’ Week. Among the many things you’re presented with, baffled and bewildered, is your home...
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Science and Technology
·2nd October 2012

How to snag the perfect college spouse in ten days…

“…To love and to cherish, till death us do part.” Those words – uttered by the besotted, the head-over-heels-in-love and...
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Culture
·4th November 2021

Night on the Town

Amina Lounas
Image Description: a selfie taken in a night club.  Freshers week has been and gone, and our inevitable freshers flu...
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