Tag: stress

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

"There, there(‘s) a graveyard in the college where drunk students in funeral suits smile through tombstone teeth."

“Staying with the trouble”. This was a quote from feminist geographer and all-round academic queen Donna Haraway (2016), cited in Elwood and Leszczynski’s (2018)...

"There are only 24 hours in the day and unfortunately, I need to sleep for eight of them."

What makes tick, tick… BOOM! so important to me is its central idea of running out of time. Jonathan Larson had a deep-set panic that he only had so long to achieve his goals, to reach his markers of success.

"As an emotional writer of poetry, I’ll only ever put pen to paper in fits of extreme feeling, using it as an outlet when I feel that I cannot turn to anyone. It seems to be the closest I’ll get to the divine inspiration, with the Muse replaced by anger or loneliness." Maebh Howell takes us on an artistic Odyssey around the pressures of constant creativity.

I’m in a room full of people, of friends even, music is blasting out of a speaker; Lukas Graham’s ‘7 Years’ starts playing. Tom,...

As exams begin to finish, it's time to talk about what comes next

Welcome to exam season, and the eating habits that accompany it

The weekly grind of Oxford has detrimental effects on our learning, our mental health, and society at large

It's time for us all to close those laptops and get the rest our bodies crave

Besides tapping, you also make a vast array of other noises, that never fail to amaze (annoy) me.

A culinary guide to the all-nighter

It's not just about revision – it's about relaxing, recuperating and resting too