Columns Archives - Page 10 of 46 - The Oxford Blue

A row of statues, coloured blue, against a background of bricks on a temple.

Things in Jars

by Poppy Thornton April 29, 2024November 2, 2024

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Love Letters: Collections

by Lucy Pollock April 29, 2024April 29, 2024

Student Cooking Hacks: The Victorinox Tomato Slicer

by Elliot Koubis April 26, 2024April 30, 2024

Taking Stock: Between Diasporas, Shopping for Dessert

by Elliot Koubis March 15, 2024March 17, 2024

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Love Letters: Ode to Oxford

by Lucy Pollock March 7, 2024March 6, 2024

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Sublime Drizzlings: Vacation Fear and Trembling

by Chloe Smith March 6, 2024March 6, 2024

Diaries of a Rusticated Student: Ok, Love You, Bye!

by Alice Brooker March 5, 2024March 5, 2024

(Dis)abled

by Ruby Bailey-Proe March 4, 2024March 14, 2024

Diaries of a Rusticated Student: Penultimate

by Alice Brooker March 2, 2024March 2, 2024

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Sublime Drizzlings: Son of a Preacher Man II

by Chloe Smith March 1, 2024March 1, 2024

The Writer at the Michael Pilch Studio: Reviewed

Janik PeetersJun 13, 20255 min read

The Writer at the Michael Pilch Studio: Reviewed

“I would be lying if I said that, at times, this play didn’t feel like something approaching a personal attack. But I would also be…

In conversation with Baroness Janet Royall

Lucy PollockJun 13, 20257 min read

In conversation with Baroness Janet Royall

‘I arrived knowing very little about the realities of both Somerville and Oxford, and the amazing complexities of this collegiate university. My prejudice was that…

Exam Stress: Not Just A Stereotype

Dhillon LaljiJun 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

Sharon ZhangJun 12, 20254 min read

streetlights, part 2

“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…