Tag: work

Education folklore has it that for many years, students at MIT have scrawled the acronym ‘IHTFP’ (I hate this fucking place) around campus in an attempt to express disdain for their university. After two years at Oxford, I can now report that students here often experience similar feelings.

What did you want to be when you grew up? An astronaut maybe, or a rockstar? A life-saving surgeon? You probably didn’t envision yourself...

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

After a year that has seen skyrocketing numbers of resignations, the surging popularity of working from home, and corporate rethinks during the COVID-19 pandemic, employers are scrambling to hold onto talent and avert the worst of the so-called Great Resignation. 

"Working a job during university, it’s easy to become dissociated from both: always slightly excluded from the freedoms of non-working students, but never able to fully relate to the lives of coworkers."

Imagine working reduced hours over a four-day week and having a three day weekend, every week.   It seems like a radical idea, one that is...

Chelsea Fagan’s videos are credited for making me finally understand stocks — no small feat, since both economics teachers and my dear parents had...

Like so many other current second year students, my Trinity term in 2020 was characterised by long, repetitive hours spent at a desk I...

With people forced to work from home, layoffs happening in every industry, and a power balance shifted by the increasing necessity of essential workers, the...

The world around us is changing at an alarming rate, forcing many of us to rethink our plans for the next few months. With these changes...

Everyone in Oxford seems to be an overachiever, skipping from committee to niche sports team with apparent ease. How can we deal with the...

Oxford University’s official guidelines states "term-time employment is not permitted except under exceptional circumstances," and even in the holidays, students are told to prioritise their studies. Questions...

I round the corner. The door is in sight. I make awkward eye contact with the person coming the other way down the path...

Whether it's problem sheets or essays, here are some top tips to remember when it starts to pile on