To master’s or not to master’s, that is the question
My undergraduate degree was five years long. That was, I’m sure you will agree, too long. In Scotland, the average degree takes four years, unlike the three here in England. I completed a work...
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The trials of democracy in 2025
Concerns over the state of democracy are nothing new—whenever a major political event or crisis unfolds, debates resurface about whether democracy, a system built on the protection of individual...
View ArticleI’m autistic: Why are you so surprised?
Starting a postgraduate course at a new university means starting fresh. People know nothing about you and, as an autistic individual, I often worry that my new classmates and professors think I am...
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Are you in love or are you just bored?
There is nothing more energising than the hope of love. It is enough to get us up in the morning, into our freshest outfits and out that heavy door, trailing the hope that some special someone will be...
View ArticleThe future of The Covered Market
Oxford City Council has allocated an additional £1m in funding to secure the future of the indoor attraction. The market, which celebrated 250 years in September 2024, was designed by English...
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Laptop Health 101
Over six years of study, I have somehow managed to burn my way through three laptops. I have found that both possessing a laptop and not possessing one can be extremely stressful situations. Not...
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The Oxford a cappella experience
A global phenomenon has taken the collegiate world by storm: a cappella. While a cappella has been around formally since the 14th century, it has, over the past few decades, taken over college and...
View ArticleUniversity killed my creativity. Has it killed yours?
I used to read fiction. I used to read every night until the early hours, losing myself in a hundred different worlds. I used to daydream, imagining myself as the characters: I was a princess, a...
View Article“I wouldn’t ever work in a state school”
This is what someone once said to me. I like to think that if they had known I was state educated they wouldn’t have said it but you can never be sure. We’ve all heard the recent figures that 93% of...
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Behind the scenes at the Bodleian
If you walk past the Weston Library on a regular basis, you’ll notice the display in the window changing pretty frequently. I had the opportunity to speak with two members of the team about the...
View ArticleParcels of Joy – the wonder of being a reader
This article was born a few weekends ago, when I had a bright idea for a friend’s birthday. Having considered dumb shirts, mugs, and the ultimate admission of gift-giving failure, a voucher, I...
View ArticleTo marry or not to marry: dating in South Asian culture
I look back to the holy month of Ramadan: my family fasts from sunrise to sunset, no food, no water, and the utmost servility to God and his teachings. One day, we decide to break the fast with my...
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May Morning: an Oxford history
In the early hours of Thursday, thousands of people will gather on Magdalen Bridge for Oxford’s historic May Morning celebrations. Last year, an estimated 14,000 people stood below Magdalen College’s...
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We’ll Always Have Odeon…
Though it’s emphatically not true that Oxford is the hedonistic, loose and free world depicted in literature and movies such as Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn, it is absolutely true that everyone here has...
View ArticleThe Nights of an Oxford Insomniac: When the dead are also restless
It’s 2am and I can’t sleep, but that’s all right because I have a new pastime to while away the hours. Long days of binging Walking Dead spin-offs with my Dad have left me with one thing and one thing...
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Sorry in Advance?
How many times have you apologised in an email to your tutor? I counted. 40. Four-ty! I don’t even think I’ve sent 40 emails in my life. But a quick dive into my Outlook revealed a fact I’d been...
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Waves, rocks, bugs and balloons: Diaries of an Oxford Geographer
Perhaps the biggest perk of being an Oxford Geographer – aside from the ability to bring ‘temporal and spatial scales’ into every conversation ever – is the weeklong all-expenses paid fieldwork trip...
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A guest in a city: a tale of rustication
My rustication was far from expected, and much less smooth sailing. I began my second Hilary term in 2025 with high hopes; which term cards, horrendous essay titles, new friends and newer stresses...
View ArticleConfessions of a gambler
I’ll admit it – I have a problem. For almost a year there’s nothing I’ve thought about more than gambling. Whenever I sit down to do my essays, I feel compelled to check the odds every half hour....
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Ode to a Rice Cooker
This is my ode – a little too wordy, perhaps just slightly bitter, probably overdramatic, but wholeheartedly sincere – to my rice cooker. As a born-and-bred Korean, I carry the stereotypical but...
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