Student Protests: Are they the answer?
Both Rob and myself agree that the proposed fee plans are bonkers! In fact, a little birdy told me last week that our own Brookes head mistress plans that fees here will be a set rate at the top band of £9000 accross all courses if/when the fee system is employed, which is just silliness we say! Do you honestly feel you are getting that value for money when you fork out hundred of pounds a year in books and can’t even find a PC to use in the crappy library? But anyway,... Read More
Festive Survival Guide
After living so long in a shabby, untidy student house with smells coming from God-knows-where for the last 4 or 5 months , it is always a relief that the Christmas Holiday Break comes round when it does, or is it?! Now yes, it is always stressful going back to a house where you cant pee on the toilet seat and not be called a ʻLADʼ for it, but this time comes every year and you should milk it for all it is worth. If you don’t, there is no word that describes you apart... Read More
The View’s Christmas Message
Hello Boys and Girls, Have you been good this year? Well we shall soon find out as good old Father Christmas is on his merry way. Let’s just hope we can all get home through this chuffing snow! In the meanwhile, I know you’re all dreaming of eating your body weight in Terry’s Chocolate Orange and face-planting your younger siblings in the snow, but for now let us tickle your festive baubles with some light studenty entertainment. We have pearls of frosted wisdom... Read More
Blanche spits in the face of Crapmas
Festive greetins to y’all, it’s Blanche here, ready to spread some yuletide lovin’ and good will, wrapped in home spun words of Southern wisdom. Now for many of y’all thinking about Christmas will summon up all manner of sugar plummed hopes and dreams, wishes and smiles. For the rest of us though, the sugar plums fell off the frozen tree of angst somewhere in November, to reveal a freshly woven wicker man containing drunken druids and naked flames. But I digress. As Mrs... Read More
Culture Shock Diaries
I suppose I had kind of been to England before I came to Oxford Brookes, but I’m not sure if being a toddler, and not knowing where you actually are or driving through by night in order to get to an island off its western shores counts as REALLY having been here. Let’s say ‘no’. My real first time in England then began when I took the ferry from Calais to Dover with my little German Opel Corsa. With its steering wheel on the left side + being a tiny tiny car +... Read More
Day (and night) in the Life of an Oxford Club Promoter
1:00pm: Wake up to the 14th text message in the last hour and to 3answer phone messages. Everyone wants me, it’s sad there isn’t more to go around. MATE. One girl is practically offering me her virginity to skip the queue tonight, but I know she isn’t a virgin, I gave her one in the club toilets last week. She loved it. I’m still tired from the epic après lash of last night, its hard going at it every night of the week. My hangover is epic. MATE. I roll over and go back... Read More
The 6 Worst Christmas Presents To Buy…
… For your mum: The Facial Epilator (yes, they do exist… and no, that’s not why I know.) Remind your mother that the menopause doesn’t have to be hairy. That is… if you want to be struck off the list for next year. Or enjoy watching her cry (and maybe spit) into your turkey as she throws it on a plate at you. My dad bought my mum a ‘lady-shave’ one year. Needless to say she was less than enthused. …For your dad: Something ‘Young’ Wow, what a great shirt- I... Read More
Top 10 YouTube Procrastination Gems
I’ve Compiled a list of what I think are great YouTube videos discovered this semester. Procrastination at its finest to get you through this last painful push of work. 1.Being a Dickhead\’s Cool This semster;s ‘Gap Yah’ Highlight – ‘new age fun with a vintage feel’ 2. Tippex Type in any verb…most work, ‘skins’ doesn’t. 3. Old Spice ‘Don’t smell like sunsets and baby powder. Smell like jet fighters and... Read More
