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  • 23rd March 2023
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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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Features
·6th October 2011

What NOT to do in Freshers’ Week

Rebecca Sloan is on hand to help you to negotiate a week of sticky situations...
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·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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Features
·28th September 2012

The Five People You Meet in Freshers’ Week

 The Evangelical Christian  Offering toasties, pancakes and even an eternal afterlife, the evangelical Christian won’t hesitate to share the Good...
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·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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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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Entertainment
·7th October 2013

What’s On Stage? 0th Week

Stage Editors
Welcome to What’s On Stage?, our new weekly update showcasing the editors’ picks for what to see in Oxford each...
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·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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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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News
·6th October 2011

The Malcontent on: Freshers’ Week

Harriet Lowes administers the antidote to the perpetual cycle of over-hype
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Features
·24th July 2012

Top Ten: Freshers’ Week Faux Pas

Tom Ough
So it all comes down to this. A single week in which to make the first impression that will define...
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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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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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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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Entertainment
·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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News
·4th October 2013

The fashion police on the Traffic Light Party

Emily Bootle
With the looming prospect of Freshers’ Week in all its overhyped glory comes the even darker thought of its fancy...
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·18th August 2014

The university packing list

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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·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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