The Nightmare before Christmas

A Guide to Tackling Christmas Shopping in Oxford It may seem like Halloween was only yesterday, but the bombardment of jingling bells, fake snow and choruses of children can mean only one thing; Christmas is coming. With the pressure of pre-holiday exams and dwindling funds, students are on the look-out for a simple, quick way to get everything ticked off the shopping list at minimal... Read More

Freshers Beware of the Dangers of Letting Agents!

We have all seen the avid attempts by the university to urge letting agencies to release their housing lists in February. Many students rush into decisions as early as early November and as friendship circles change in the space of three months, this could cause huge problems for you and the group of people you are going to have to live with for a year. For a newbie to letting agents,... Read More

Skint Student?

So you’ve waved goodbye to your parents, settled into your new Halls of Residence and have survived the carnage that is freshers week. Now there are lectures to be attended and finding that all-important balance between work and play. On top of managing university work and your social life, you’ve to actually learn how to budget your money. Yes you’ve all that money at the... Read More

When Ice Cream is a No No!

‘I’d rather bleed with love, than live without any scars’ (Pink – Love Song). Do you agree? I thought so. I’m not going to tell you how to find The One, or true love, or even pretend to know about this complex, wonderful and painful phenomenon that is called love, any more than you do. Most people look for the One. I found several Ones. As a very young woman of 8 years... Read More

Things to Watch Out For

Here are a couple of things I have learnt when I was at university last year… A collection of basic items that may seem screamingly obvious, but my fellow Freshers and I came across these issues when we first branched out to live alone and join the real world. Do: Your washing at 8am when no-one else wants the machines or is around to look at your underwear in the see through... Read More

Discovering Oxford

There are many travel guides describing Oxford. Pointing out the restaurants worth eating at, mentioning the nightclubs and bars which are supposed to fit your taste, dedicating pages to THE Oxford University and all the history that comes with it. I won’t try to imitate their style as first of all they are mostly for those who have a pretty limited amount of time to know the... Read More

Exploring Chile

Once upon a time, I was on the other side of the world and I was in love with so many things, the view, the man sat opposite me, the friends I had met, the life I was planning for myself, the snow and the blue sky, the Chilean palms…I was in paradise and I’m not even sure if I was totally aware of it. I spent this summer in Santiago, Chile working as a part time nanny... Read More

Shameful Students

CALM THE FUCK DOWN! Oh my god which nights out do we go on? That girl is in my block do I speak to her? SHIT I’ve spent £300 in my first week! Will I survive if I don’t like super noodles? To put it bluntly… Go on every night out, make friends with as many people as you can, that’s £300 well spent and we’re sure you’ll love noodles after a week or two. Stop bloody... Read More

Festival Survival 101

Ahh  festivals. A weekend comprising of immense fun, cold beers in the sun, great music and rancid hygiene standards….beautiful. So if you’re about to lose your festival cherry this summer, read on! Whilst you may have gathered up nuff cash to buy your beloved Reading/ Oxygen/ Glasto/ Latitude/Leeds ticket, or if you were vey veyy lucky, dear mama and papa will have forked... Read More

Building Stuff at Brookes Buggers Everything Up

Check Out the building work on YouTube Who was the complete berk that decided to allow the builders to completely cut the university in half? I come back from holidays and walk to lectures in a leisurely manner, and then find I’ve got to take a massive detour around the whole of the campus to get to my lecture. I like to be casually late as it is, but now I’m this “I’m so... Read More