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My year of rest and rustication

I distinctly remember turning to my friend upon reading the 2024 Cherwell article on rustication and proudly claiming: “You know, I have never seriously considered rustication.”
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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...
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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...
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Life divided: collections

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

The Oxford interview: a helper’s view

Ramani Chandramohan sees the process from the other side of the desk a year on from her own interview

Holidays: Cherwell Visuals competition

Whether you spent the vac away or at home, send your holiday art to [email protected] for a chance to see it in print

Restaurant review: Mildred’s

Amy Booth reviews a refreshingly impressive vegetarian restaurant in London

2016: the year in food

Emily Beswick and Sam Purnell pick their five most unforgettable food moments

Recipe: as American as apple pie

Julianna Lewis reflects on two Christmases on either side of the Atlantic

Windy colours

Emma Leech recalls her encounter with Henry the homeless artist and his unexpected colour palette

An Indian Christmas feast

Gitanjali Sharma recalls the Indian dishes she sampled around the Christmas dinner table this year

Recipe: Chanukah doughnuts, a user’s guide

Rachel Korn explores one of the festival’s most popular food traditions

Christmas around the world: Hungary

Rosie Gyorfi speaks about her celebration of Hungarian Christmas traditions in the UK

Recipe: Let the festivities be-gin

Julia Alsop shares a trio of sparkling winter cocktails to liven up your Christmas celebrations

Christmas around the world: Austria

Jack Schofield discusses the (sometimes terrifying) festive traditions of alpine Austria

Recipe: festive gingerbread stars

Emily Beswick suggests a great teatime snack, or thrifty Christmas gift

Recipe: A duo of warming Christmas drinks

Sam Purnell shares his favourite two drinks to enjoy this festive season

Conquering the Varsity ski trip

Susannah Goldsbrough feels as though the Varsity ski trip is even more gruelling than an eight week term at Oxford

From cocaine to porcelain: how one homeless person escaped crime

Michael Jacobs meets one of Oxford's many homeless people to hear his life story, from crime to happiness to the streets.

Mirror synesthesia

Verity Crane examines the unusual phenomenon of suffering from too much empathy

The reality of homelessness in Oxford and the imperative of helping

William Rees-Mogg discusses the city’s problem and the efforts to address it

A night at the clubs: Hypnotize

James Lamming is put in a trance by the Isis' budget-friendly club night

How to beat Fifth Week blues

Richard Birch and Cat Bean discuss nine ways to relax amidst the Oxonian madness
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