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·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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·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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·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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·18th August 2013

FRESHERS’ WEEK: The ultimate university shopping list!

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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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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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·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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·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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·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
·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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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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·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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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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·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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·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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·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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·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
·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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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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·24th September 2017

With a week until Freshers’, here’s our guide to the Oxford club scene

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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