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Home, and how to find it

It seems like life after university is a journey to find our way home, whatever that means.

Three Thousand reasons to slurp

I thought the place was great, especially as a very quick sit down option.

Christmas mourning

This will be my second Christmas without presents wrapped in wallpaper, and gift tags with clues on them rather than names...

A defence of students’ reliance on AI (and how to fix it)

Unless my friends are particularly fiendish, I’m pretty certain that “I’m just going to...

The last tutorial: Let the nostalgia – and the anxiety – sink in

Many of us have heard the dreaded ‘So… any idea what you’re doing next?’. It makes me a little irate, anxious, and on the verge of a minor breakdown, as you can probably tell. Two years of my undergraduate degree have somehow disappeared with the blink of an eye – I am older but seem to be none the wiser.

Life Divided: Punting

Jamie Onslow and Anna Elliot meander off in different directions over punting

Diamond-studded skies and carriages at 5am

Susannah Goldsbrough eulogises on the wonder of balls

College Insider: Christ Church

Our insider on rowdy bops and Barbour jacket syndrome

Blind Date: “It soon became apparent that we were quite different people”

George Dickinson and Laura Savage bond over politics, yoga, and disappointing ale

Friends with Benefit

Eimer McAuley and Jonny Adams discuss the transformative power of makeup

Losing our memories and our selves

Carolina Earle explores the impact of dementia and the importance of our memories on our selves

SnapShot: Boat Race afterparty

Matt Roller suffers through the afterparty at Embargo

A beginner’s guide to the all-night essay crisis

Eimer McAuley mentors us through the cold and dark hours of hitting the word count

Life Divided: Croquet

Akshay Bilolikar and Esme Ash weigh up the pros and cons of croquet, from all angles

College Insider – Worcester

Everywhere you turn in Worcester, you see Chanel. And no, I’m not talking about thousand pound skirt suits, but the Provost’s West Highland Terrier. It’s...

Life Divided: Unpacking

Rosa Thomas and Jamie Onslow reluctantly consider the pains and gains of unpacking

Blind Date: The only way to cope with these inadequacies was to drink more”

Priya Khaira-Hanks and Jamie Horton swap gossip and guilty pleasures over a drink at Turf Tavern

My town and my gown: from the Dreaming Spires to semi-rural obscurity

Maxim Parr-Reid laments the parochial mediocrity of a vacation spent in rural Buckinghamshire.

The guilt of gaming at Oxford

Charles Britton finds that university life has taken its toll on an all-consuming hobby

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