Lifestyle

All buttered up: Broche, and the art of the perfect croissant

During these cold winter months, in which – thanks to that pinnacle of British construction, breathable walls – I wake up in a freezing room, I find great solace in hiding beneath my blanket.

Food Luis Prenninger -

The case for doing nothing (on holiday)

My best memories of gallivanting around Europe were of parks. They were found in the tranquility of self-reflection as I enjoyed the serenity of nature, clutching my too-expensive coffee and watching the ducks swim about in the river as the cold winter wind whipped the fallen leaves off the ground beside me.

Lifestyle Trevor Lee -

Why you shouldn’t finish your reading list

On being accepted into Oxford, everyone warned me about the reading lists. “You’ll be reading eight hours a day,” they said. At the time, it sounded almost romantic.

Lifestyle Anisha Mohammed -

Kilts, Ceilidhs and Calling: Inside the World of Oxford Reeling

It's Thursday night in New College's Long Room, and several dozen students are desperately trying to master The Plough Speed, which, for the uninitiated, is a mind boggling routine of side-steps, spins and shuffles.

Lifestyle Nancy Robson -

College Insider at St Anne’s

Our insider pens a desperate plea to the outside world from the cold, dark periphery of Oxford University

College Insider at Keble

Our insider on unorthodox architecture, and a brick

Snapshot: Brasenose Ball

Esmé Ash relives a night of sugar highs and The Jackson 5

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

Highway to hell

Susannah Goldsbrough reveals how she's driven herself around the bend

My town and my gown: between dreaming spires and magic roundabouts

Ellie Jerome finds that more divides Oxford and Swindon than a stretch of the A420

My town and my gown: “the world has slowed down around me”

Josh Travers resigns himself to the monotony of a Vac spent in Stockport

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