News·24th September 2017With 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...Read More
Features·6th October 2011What NOT to do in Freshers’ Week Rebecca Sloan is on hand to help you to negotiate a week of sticky situations...Read More
Life·11th October 20165 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,...Read More
News·18th August 2014The university packing list After all of the stress, you’ve made it. The exams are done, the results good; your parents have gushingly informed...Read More
Comment·4th October 2016Freshers’ 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...Read More
Entertainment·7th October 2013What’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...Read More
News·6th October 2011The Malcontent on: Freshers’ Week Harriet Lowes administers the antidote to the perpetual cycle of over-hypeRead More
EntertainmentLife·28th September 2012A 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....Read More
Entertainment·12th September 2013FRESHERS’ 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...Read More
News·17th August 2017Rowing 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...Read More
Comment·28th October 2016Freshers’ 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...Read More
News·4th October 2013The 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...Read More
Features·15th October 2020From 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...Read More
News·21st September 2017A 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...Read More
Features·15th September 2012College 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,...Read More
Entertainment·2nd September 2013FRESHERS’ 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...Read More
News·9th May 2023Union finances jeopardised after SU boycott Rose Henderson The Oxford University Student Union has severed ties with the Oxford Union. 78% of voters were in favour. The motion...Read More
Science and Technology·2nd October 2012How 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...Read More
Features·24th July 2012Top 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...Read More