Life
Food in Ramadan: Fast or feast?
Take a deep breath in, and hold. Hold it for as long as you are able to (without passing out), and then, once your lungs are pleading for air,...
A day in the life of an Oxford influencer
“Yet though they might be close physically, sometimes watching these videos makes me feel worlds away from the lives they live”
To all the pubs we’ve loved before – Three Goats Heads
Week 7 – for the normal student, we are approaching the end of term,...
To all the pubs we’ve loved before: pitch(er) perfect
The fifth week blues are hitting so we are combatting them with blue lagoons!...
To all the pubs we’ve loved before: The House
For the classier among us, sometimes pubs and pints aren’t always what you’re looking...
A New Yorker Reviews Oxford Shake Shack
Shake Shack is more than a fast food restaurant to me. I’d go there on half days with friends or eat and talk for...
Sunny Side Up!
This week saw me, along with all the other hordes of students in second year, cross the halfway mark of my degree. Maybe it’s...
The Patience of Ordinary Things: in defence of doing nothing
It has been a week. Read that last word in italics, if you will - I am unsure if the Cherwell’s print formatting will...
Dating Apps: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
They say you leave Oxford with one of three things: a first, a Blue, or a spouse. I can’t do sports, and I’m more...
Beating the Blues – is it possible to overcome the 5th week blues?
The 5th week blues are an infamous and universal part of the Oxford experience. They are as renowned as crewdates, formals, and bops -...
Get your flatmate to cook on Valentine’s Day
For Valentine’s Day last year, I lay on the floor of my room and ate self-bought, discount chocolate. I intend to do the same...
The Rooms Before Me
"How can we make a space our own, for the brief interim where it is indeed our own, when we know that it carries so much history of so many people before us, within it?"
Theo’s Café
The Cafés warm space differs greatly from the takeaway-focused cafés and food trucks of Broad Street, though I’m sure Theo’s will make itself at home soon enough.
Halfway Hall, *sighs with relief*
I didn’t always dream of studying at Oxford. My decision to apply was made in a split second, panicked, mere days before the Oxbridge...
How to make rizz-otto
If like me, patience when cooking is not your forte, find a friend to cook it for you
Dry January
Dry January is the national month of ‘New Year, New Me!’-ing yourself out of alcoholism. My guess is that a combination of excessive drinking...
The Patience of Ordinary Things
Recently, I have invested in Good Bread. This is most likely not something that I truly need to share via article, as a large...
Rocky (Road) Comms?
I like to consider myself a rocky road aficionado. There is a beautiful alchemy in mixing the various standard ingredients with a few wild...
Gendering Oxford: Through the female gaze
A couple of years before I arrived at Oxford, I came across a French film on Netflix: Je suis pas un homme facile (I...
