Is BPD the modern-day female hysteria diagnosis?
Over my past two years in Oxford, I’ve had quite a few conversations with other women that followed along the lines of ‘I was diagnosed with BPD at a young age, turns out I have ADHD instead’ or ‘I...
View ArticleImpressions from my Ancestral Homeland
At the end of March, I found myself in the rural countryside of southern China, looking out at lush, green mountains and long, flowing rivers. It was like something out of a shan shui ink painting....
View ArticleThe Flat White Fight Club: Oxford’s underground café wars
Rule one: never talk about your café. Let’s be honest: studying in Oxford is only partially about the libraries. The real academic hustle happens in cafés — those overpriced, overpopulated urban...
View ArticleOxford Jargon: the indecipherable dialect?
You know that humiliating moment when the word ‘scout’ or ‘collections’ slips out in front of friends and family back home– an awkward wakeup call to the strangeness of Oxford jargon, which seems to...
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