1st week: Is there mushroom for failure?
Like many returning students, I have spent the past week either bitterly cold (apologies to those who gave me concerned looks on the high...
The patience of ordinary things
"A different perspective exposes something new in Oxford’s tangle of streets and colleges; from afar, students on bikes and tourist groups and traffic disputes stop feeling like a nuisance, revealing instead a quiet, understated sort of loveliness."
0th Week: ‘Dough(nut) trust strangers!
Thursday evening. Eighth week. My head has finally stopped spinning after a tumultuous Park End (I think). A crinkled pastry bag is tucked under...
Twelve going on Twenty
"I’m excited to be twenty –it feels whole, a bit round, and like maybe I’m a bit of a grown up. Only a bit though."
Trinity Term expectations: Oxford at its finest?
Trinity Term seems to have some sort of mythical status. Its mention in the presence of older years is met with sighs of yearning and assertions of how splendid it is. After the cold gloom of Hilary term and the months when darkness settled over the city at 4PM, I sure am looking forward to experiencing Oxford in all its sunny glory.
Let’s Talk About: Rustication
Rustication not only offered me time for reflection, but a newfound confidence and independence
