The Saintly Lives of Students
"There, there(‘s) a graveyard in the college where drunk students in funeral suits smile through tombstone teeth."
“Staying in the trouble” at Oxford
“Staying with the trouble”. This was a quote from feminist geographer and all-round academic queen Donna Haraway (2016), cited in Elwood and Leszczynski’s (2018)...
An overflowing pot: how to avoid boiling over at uni
"There are only 24 hours in the day and unfortunately, I need to sleep for eight of them."
Running out of time
What makes tick, tick… BOOM! so important to me is its central idea of running out of time. Jonathan Larson had a deep-set panic that he only had so long to achieve his goals, to reach his markers of success.
Eat, Sleep, Create, Repeat: An Artistic Odyssey
"As an emotional writer of poetry, I’ll only ever put pen to paper in fits of extreme feeling, using it as an outlet when I feel that I cannot turn to anyone. It seems to be the closest I’ll get to the divine inspiration, with the Muse replaced by anger or loneliness." Maebh Howell takes us on an artistic Odyssey around the pressures of constant creativity.
Lets talk about: Loneliness
I’m in a room full of people, of friends even, music is blasting out of a speaker; Lukas Graham’s ‘7 Years’ starts playing. Tom,...
Letter to: Graduation Anxiety
As exams begin to finish, it's time to talk about what comes next
Surviving on Chips, Cheese and MSGs
Welcome to exam season, and the eating habits that accompany it
Oxford must change its essay obsession
The weekly grind of Oxford has detrimental effects on our learning, our mental health, and society at large
No rest for the wicked
It's time for us all to close those laptops and get the rest our bodies crave
Letter To: That Library Twat
Besides tapping, you also make a vast array of other noises, that never fail to amaze (annoy) me.
The ultimate essay crisis sandwich
A culinary guide to the all-nighter
How to: Survive Trinity
It's not just about revision – it's about relaxing, recuperating and resting too
The culture of Homecoming, from a student’s eyes
Depictions of homecoming remind us of what makes returning home such a confusing experience