What’s on This Week: Week 2
Friday 1st Week, 1:00pm – 5:00pm Tie-dye Workshop Head down to Wadham (naturally) to tie-dye via a “lucrative new method”. £1 Friday 1st Week, 7:00pm – 10:30pm Sweet n Sour…
The writers that failed at Oxford
Reckon you’re going to flop finals? You’re not alone. Phoebe Williams and Rebecca Roughan chart Oxford’s most successful failures. Evelyn Waugh “You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and…
Living, the Game of
It is all too rare a pleasure to read modern philosophy, nowadays, on the meaning of life. And it is rarely pleasurable: shelves are burdened with banality, falsity, and inauthenticity…
The Gourmand: Six Partners in Gluttony
One cannot help but observe that eating is an innately social practice; student life aside, in polite society, one would be given slightly bemused – and even pitying – looks…
Dinner Arty Conversation: CUBISM
CUBISM Need To Know • The first of the 20th century abstract art movements. Predominantly Parisian and big on guitars, vases and, y’know, cubes. Subjects are deconstructed and carefully reassembled…
The OxStu’s Haiku of the Week: 1st Week
You know those days when you just need a haiku to get you through? The Oxford Student‘s got your back. 1st Week: Finals and Thatcher, Facebook chattering classes, …
What’s On This Week: 1st week
What’s on this week Sunday 1st Week (April 21st), 10:00am – 11:30am Still Sundays A chance to relax at the Pitts Rivers Museum – a space to draw, study or stand and…
Does Spelling Matter?
In light of the recent publication Does Spelling Matter? by Magdalen College English professor Simon Horobin, The Oxford Student thought we’d have a go at answering that question ourselves. Be sure to let us…
