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Image Description: Nupur Patel’s DPhil Diaries 5th week started off with a bang with the arrival of Valentine’s Day. Admittedly, on a normal year my boyfriend and I aren’t usually the grandest celebrators of the day. That’s not to say that we’re the cynical type, complaining about how ‘commercialised’ it all is (which is probably […]
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Image Description: Lorde on stage wearing a flower crown on a dark blue background Usually, around Valentine’s Day we start to see a lot of those “50 Best Breakup Songs of All Time” and “Perfect Songs to Cry To” lists pop up, and don’t get me wrong, I love those. But this year is different. […]
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With St Valentine’s Day upon us, our thoughts turn to love – and chocolate! For some chocolate lovers, Shakespeare might have had a premonition when he composed the lines “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day”? It gives a buzz that, in many cases, lasts four times as long as the most passionate kiss […]
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It’s Fifth Week at Oxford, and a Valentine’s Day-inspired gloom has settled over the city. Seeking to relieve the community of the blues, a team of Oxford and Stanford students is working hard to launch a humorous dating event: with the help of a questionnaire and an algorithm, we reckon that every participant in the […]
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With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, love is in the air, and on our screens. But this Valentine’s Day, instead of re-watching the Notebook rain-kiss for the umpteenth time, why not rev up the engine of your stolen automobile and take a ride on the wild side? Mickey and Mallory Knox in Natural Born Killers (1994), […]
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With Valentine’s day last Sunday (a day of commercial nonsense which takes all the spontaneity out of romance) my mind turned to the commercialisation of love in the modern music industry. I’ve got this stereotypical image in my head of how romantically music was used ‘back in the olden days’; I’m picturing boys standing outside […]
Continue ReadingYou may be sickeningly loved up this February 14th, or you may be still riding solo and heading to Bridge in search of true love/a mediocre one-night stand. Perhaps you just don’t care, and are more excited about your hot date with the library. But what is Valentine’s Day actually all about? Although today’s […]
Continue ReadingGeorge Huntley describes the cruelty of Valentine’s day to lonely hearts.
Continue ReadingHere are some of the little things in life we at The Oxford Student love. Happy Valentine’s Day.
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