• News and Sport
    • Sports
    • Interviews
  • Opinion
    • Features
  • Global Affairs
    • Outside OX1
    • Across the Aisle
  • Identity
    • LGBTQ+
    • Feminism
    • Disability
    • ERM (Ethnic and Religious Minorities)
    • Diaries of a Thought Son
    • (Dis)abled
    • Not Just A Stereotype
    • Words of a Multiple
  • Environment
  • Culture
    • Film & TV
    • Music
    • Theatre
    • Fashion
    • Literature
  • Lifestyle
    • The Lifestyle Lowdown
    • Health and Wellbeing
    • Relationships
    • Travel
    • Food
    • Love Comes out of The Blue
  • Columns
    • Previous Columns
      • Beyond the Bubble
      • Love Letters
      • Musings of a Media Lover
      • Beyond the Footnotes
      • Heal Between the Lines
      • Admissions of a Rusticated Student
      • Objectifying Oxford
      • SaTired: Observations of a Finalist
      • Your College Auntie
      • Wine Waffle
    • Borders and Belonging
    • InterMEDIAte
    • Risk Appetite
  • Profiles
  • The Bluebell
  • Contact Us
  • Mailing List
  • Alumni – can you help us?
  • The Archive
    • 5 Years of The Blue
    • The Blueprint
    • Freshers’ Guides
      • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2024
      • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2023
      • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2022
      • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2021
  • Instagram
  • TikTok
  • Facebook Page
Skip to content
  • Instagram
  • TikTok
  • Facebook Page
The Oxford Blue

The Oxford Blue

Oxford University's Independent Newspaper | Est. 2020

  • News and Sport
    • Sports
    • Interviews
  • Opinion
    • Features
  • Global Affairs
    • Outside OX1
    • Across the Aisle
  • Identity
    • LGBTQ+
    • Feminism
    • Disability
    • ERM (Ethnic and Religious Minorities)
    • Diaries of a Thought Son
    • (Dis)abled
    • Not Just A Stereotype
    • Words of a Multiple
  • Environment
  • Culture
    • Film & TV
    • Music
    • Theatre
    • Fashion
    • Literature
  • Lifestyle
    • The Lifestyle Lowdown
    • Health and Wellbeing
    • Relationships
    • Travel
    • Food
    • Love Comes out of The Blue
  • Columns
    • Previous Columns
      • Beyond the Bubble
      • Love Letters
      • Musings of a Media Lover
      • Beyond the Footnotes
      • Heal Between the Lines
      • Admissions of a Rusticated Student
      • Objectifying Oxford
      • SaTired: Observations of a Finalist
      • Your College Auntie
      • Wine Waffle
    • Borders and Belonging
    • InterMEDIAte
    • Risk Appetite
  • Profiles
  • The Bluebell
  • Contact Us
  • Mailing List
  • Alumni – can you help us?
  • The Archive
    • 5 Years of The Blue
    • The Blueprint
    • Freshers’ Guides
      • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2024
      • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2023
      • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2022
      • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2021

Author Archives: Chloé Agar

Chloé (she/her) is an Egyptologist who, when not studying obscure ancient languages, writes fantasy and sci-fi fiction and non-fiction articles on education and the arts for The Oxford Blue, The Oxford Student, and Coronavirus Tutoring Initiative.

Posted inOpinion

Univ vs St Cross – How do they compare?

by Chloé Agar May 8, 2020September 19, 2020
Posted inLifestyle

Perspectives on Remote Learning: Will the Pandemic Make Education More Accessible?

by Chloé Agar April 27, 2020April 26, 2020
Posted inOpinion

What teacher training doesn’t teach – the reality of training to teach as a DPhil student

by Chloé Agar April 23, 2020July 18, 2021
Posted inOpinion

Keeping off the grass – common sense vs COVID-19

by Chloé Agar April 19, 2020July 18, 2021
Posted inOpinion

You get what you pay for but if not, pay anyway – Tuition fees in 2020 so far

by Chloé Agar April 14, 2020July 18, 2021
Posted inLifestyle

The Student Budget vs COVID-19

by Chloé Agar March 29, 2020April 3, 2020
Posted inOpinion

The Egyptologist’s Curse – Not so wonderful things about being an Egyptologist

by Chloé Agar March 21, 2020July 18, 2021
Posted inOpinion

The Pill Shortage – A Symptom of the Wider Epidemic in Women’s Health

by Chloé Agar February 24, 2020February 24, 2020
Posted inOpinion

Degree Reviews: The reality of DPhil History

by Chloé Agar February 4, 2020July 18, 2021
Posted inCulture

Taking the High Road – Most Anticipated Pop Albums of 2020 So Far

by Chloé Agar January 31, 2020July 29, 2024

Posts pagination

Newer posts 1 2

Popular Posts

  • People outside at dusk.
    Risk Appetite: On Trying British Classics as an American
  • Coventry City's home ground, pictured in late 2025.
    Drama on and off the pitch: The 2025/26 Football League Championship
  • Image of a wall
    So Bad, It’s Good: John Cage’s 4’33”
  • The two protagonists of Oleanna; the professor is reading an essay to his student.
    David Marmet’s Oleanna at New College, Oxford: Reviewed
  • Figure skater Surya Bonaly, competing in 1992.
    Bonaly’s Backflip Returns to Olympic Ice
  • Drone shot capturing lush green fields and trees
    Biodiversity for profit? Power and accountability at IPBES-12

Risk Appetite: On Trying British Classics as an American

Chloé Agar Apr 30, 2026 8 min read
People outside at dusk.

Valerie Wu explores what it is like to try British food classics as an American in Oxford, and how one way of understanding a culture…

So Bad, It’s Good: John Cage’s 4’33”

Chloé Agar Apr 30, 2026 4 min read
Image of a wall

Music is ubiquitous in our lives. From the playlists we make for every imaginable activity to the constant drone of mundane pop at restaurants and…

New Media: Have We Evolved to Think Less Deeply?

Chloé Agar Mar 23, 2026 6 min read
New Media: Have We Evolved to Think Less Deeply?

Image credit to Kristin Hardwick. Used under the Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ License via Wikimedia Commons When we think of evolution, our minds tend to spring…

A Tour of The Grove: Oxford’s Newest Student Theatre Space

Chloé Agar Mar 20, 2026 5 min read
A student theatre set with two actors and a wooden structure which looks like a house.

“the Grove, with its top-of-the-line sound and lighting, traditional architectural backdrop, and grander scale, is certainly a theatre worth watching out for” Janik Peeters tours…

© 2026 The Oxford Blue Student Newspaper CIC | A new voice for a new decade | Est. 2020. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic Privacy Policy
  • Instagram
  • TikTok
  • Facebook Page
Go to mobile version