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A love letter to my year abroad

A year is a long time: enough to call a place home, enough to strip away the bright facade of newness. I’ve spent my year abroad at this university,...

Lifestyle Rebecca Bushee -

Absence (and digicam photodumps) make the heart grow fonder: Nostalgia for Oxford

Last Michaelmas, as my friends and I were going through our photos from a...

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Do ‘day in the life’ videos make us hate our own?

An alarm flashes on a phone screen: it’s 5am. A hand reaches out to...

Lifestyle Jessie Jukes -

A new kid on the matcha block: NEPA Coffee and Food review

In January 2025, Cherwell provided some guidance on this issue by offering the student body a definitive ranking of Oxford matcha. Since then, however, there have been some new developments.

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A thistle amongst the roses: to be a lone Scot in Oxford

Emma Leech questions the motives behind setting up national societies

Mindfulness through a camera lens

Sophie Cheng uses photography to focus her perspective on life

Life Divided: crewdates

Jamie Onslow and Nicola Dwornik share differing perspectives on crewdates

Blind Date: Rosie and Tom

Tom and Rosie discuss classical music and Persian history over a drink in Turf Tavern

Cocktail of the week: negroni sbagliato

Julia Alsop shares an indulgent aperitif

Life Divided: bops

Eloise Heath and Charles Pidgeon provide contrasting literary criticisms of bops

Recipe: caprese mac and cheese

Sam Purnell puts an Italian twist on an American classic

Review: The Standard

Emily Beswick discovers Jericho’s best-kept secret

Worthwhile resolutions

Emma Leech encourages students to make realistic and useful resolutions

Letter from abroad: Belgium

Emily Dillistone considers linguistic anomalies in Francophone Belgium

Marxist pigeons: a short guide to Oxford’s city wildlife

Jamie Onslow suggests that students turn off Planet Earth II to experience the real one

Recipe: an alternative pizza experience

Sam Purnell suggests a guilt-free version of a student classic

Food diary: why we all should cook more

Kanak Shah suggests trying a new approach to food in 2017

Review: George Street Social

Emily Beswick visits a haven for price-savvy food fanatics

PTSD rewrote me

Izzy Smith reflects on the way in which PTSD affects her life and her identity

Cocktail of the week: raspberry basil highball

Sam Purnell devises a refreshing cocktail delicious with or without alcohol

Letter from abroad: Vienna

Rebecca Morton explores how Vienna has taken her outside the ‘Oxford Bubble’

Blind Date: Andrew and Alice

Alice and Andrew bond over Wahoo, a capella, and Tesco's bagels

Unearthing the past: in search of stasis, simplicity and Mrs Simpson

Daniel Curtis reflects on school memories and how disorientating Oxford can appear at first

Life divided: collections

Nicola Dwornik describes two different takes on the termly ‘collections’ experience

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