Cici Zhang, Author at The Oxford Blue

Make me ugly: Friendship, lust, and directing Othello.

by Cici Zhang January 29, 2025May 29, 2025

Exam Stress: Not Just A Stereotype

Cici ZhangJun 12, 20256 min read

"For me, one of the most difficult things about exams is that normality goes out the window. Lessons, lectures, and tutorials that defined my week for the first two terms of Oxford life here have now become a series of scattergun revision classes." Image from Wikimedia Commons by Prosa, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ilustrando_a_neurodiversidade.png

Exams can be stressful as an autistic person, they can be stressful for any person. A year’s work culminating in that small window at the…

streetlights, part 2

Cici ZhangJun 12, 20254 min read

“I have this kind of repeated dream where I’m in a car, fleeing from the kind of thing that Clementine Kruczynski manic-pixie-sex-dolls flee from, something…

Is Reading Still Relevant?

Cici ZhangJun 12, 20253 min read

“At a university built on reading, in an age where machines can do it for us, do we still believe reading matters?” Ngoc Diep (Alice)…

Musings of a Media Lover: Lucy Dacus and Love Songs

Cici ZhangJun 12, 20256 min read

The photo is taken from a college quadrangle at sunset. It shows the top of College buildings in shadow. Behind them is a pink and blue sunset.

‘Even an album about love, something I think I hear too much about, sometimes, is made unique at the hands of Lucy Dacus’. Millie Acton…