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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...

News Prity Laloux -

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.

Lifestyle Prity Laloux -

Creaming Spires TT15 Week 7

This week we divert away from Grindr to hear about a messy club hookup

Why I Refrigerated My Poo

An anonymous contributor narrates their profitable fortnight on a clinical typhoid trial

Bar Review: Merton

The bar’s cheap, but easily beaten by any of the high street pubs

How to…Become a BNOC

Cherwell Life offers advice on all your most pressing Oxford problems

Oxford Odyssey: 30 colleges in one day

Francesca Anthony and Emily Cunningham narrate their Oxford mission

Diary of a… Blues Swimmer

Cherwell peers into the weekly lives of Oxford's most famous characters

Creaming Spires TT15 Week 6

This week, one guy describes the pleasures of relinquishing control

Will’s Deli is deli-cious!

Laura Field enjoys finding the light in this shadowy hippie haven

Recipe of the week: Spicy Menemen

Jonny Lawrence teaches us how to make sp-egg-tacular Turkish scramble

Confessions of a student chef: Charlie La Fosse

We all scream for this week's student chef's ice cream

Ready, Steady, Cook! Tesco Finest Paella

James Coppin bought a paella and ate it and it was good

Mindfulness: more than just meditation

Marco Narajos discusses the benefits and universality of mindfulness

How to…Deal With Bad Student Drama

Cherwell Life offers advice on all your most pressing Oxford problems

Diary of a…Drinking Society President

Cherwell peers into the weekly lives of Oxford's most famous characters

Etiquette in a Turkish Hamam

Laura Field describes the pleasant surprises of a visit to a Turkish bath

Creaming Spires TT15 Week 5

This week, a girl narrates the physical actualisation of her bisexuality

#NotGuilty: I am proud

A survivor illustrates the impact and her reaction to being sexually assaulted by her friend's father

What does it mean to be happy?

Marco Narajos walks us through the recent Students for Happiness event

Why I became a vegetarian

An Oxford student explains his entirely selfish reasons for saying no to bacon

Ready, Steady, Cook! Uncle Ben’s Sweet and Sour Rice Time

James Coppin eats a pot of rice and it has other stuff too

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