Monday 15th June 2026

Lifestyle

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,...
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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...
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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Why get up? Why keep going?

At every late library session or rainy walk back to college, I think back to my days in fluorescent-lit, outdated offices. I think of riding a busy bus, an hour each way. I think of pointless, drawn-out meetings. And I think of all the time I wasted for no good reason.

Keep missing the Northern Lights? A guide to aurora-chasing in Oxford

Last night, Oxford was treated to another spectacular display of the Northern Lights. For many students, this marked the second time this year they...

Narcissus’ reflection: Ego and the Oxford experience

What exactly does it take for someone to think of themselves as ‘worthy’ to study at one of the greatest universities in the world?

Much ado about nothing: Oxford cafes

Having spent a ridiculous amount of time working(ish) in Oxford cafés, these are some of the top tips and tricks I have learnt about attempting to navigate Oxford café culture.

The grey area

It is a funny thing to become a statistic. It all seems so binary before it happens to you. Are you the zero, or the one?

Going out without flunking out: How to write your essay when the room’s still spinning

We’ve all been there. The perfect opportunity for a night out, potentially foiled by the un-attempted essay due tomorrow at 4pm. An age-old Oxford conundrum.

The helliday

My friends and I had approached the trip with the motto ‘catch flights, not feelings’, and it appears we completely forgot to add ‘or parasitic infections’ to that list.

Serious life lessons from silly Oxford mistakes

You’re not alone, and to make one mistake – or even a hundred – doesn’t doom you to eternal failure.

Underconsumption-core: Are students the perfect subculture to reclaim underconsumption?

Living at university – with lives bundled completely and entirely into 4-by-4-metre rooms – requires prioritising the necessary.

What I wish I’d known before my year abroad 

For many students the year abroad had either been one huge disappointment or a life-changing rite of passage.

Reflections on the life of a mature student

I think we find ourselves in a particular state of searching after finishing secondary school. Even if we have an idea of what we...

The college tortoise that has taken over my life

I celebrated May Day in a pretty unorthodox way: I adopted a tortoise. Or more accurately, I took her over – with a group...

Here’s the problem with dating a man far more privileged than you

There is already a power imbalance in heterosexual relationships. The society and institutions in which our relationships with men are built favour men, their...

The definitive Oxford smoothie review

With summer comes smoothie weather, and Oxford offers a plethora of fruity delights. Coming from a place where a small smoothie is twice the...

Inside the Oxford wine world: The Bacchus termly dinner

Dressing up in black tie on a Tuesday isn’t too alien to an Oxford student. But, even to the Editor of Oxford’s best newspaper,...

Your insight into interrailing this summer

“ it can all come with a rather hefty price tag, so here are a few tips to help you save some precious pounds.  ”

Greeting the Imposter

Is an Oxford degree truly worth the stress? What really should be worn for a lounge suit dress code? (spoiler alert, reader: I still...

An ode to the spring onion

Content warning: discussion of eating disorders I really do add spring onions to everything, you know. They go with my eggs, on my toast, in...

World Cocktail Day at the Ashmolean Museum

As News editors, when we received an invite to the Ashmolean Museum’s celebration of World Cocktail Day – 13 May, for those who didn’t...

Why don’t we go clubbing any more?

“ At the heart of this debate is a stark generational shift.”
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