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Your College Auntie: Hello, Freshers!

by Anonymous Author November 7, 2025November 6, 2025

Breakups and Burnout: A guide to term-time heartbreak

by Judith Hamilton June 23, 2025June 23, 2025

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Your College Auntie: Exam Season

by Anonymous Author May 31, 2025May 31, 2025

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Your College Auntie: Welfare Week

by Anonymous Author February 24, 2025February 24, 2025

A student with brown hair holding a phone with a text on it reading "Dear Agony Aunt". A banner in pink at the top reads "Agony Aunt"

Your College Auntie: Love is in the Air

by Anonymous Author February 9, 2025February 13, 2025

The image shows a cream envelope with a small pink heart on the seal. Behind the envelope there is a pink cloud with small pink hearts.

Love Letters: Collections

by Lucy Pollock April 29, 2024April 29, 2024

This illustration shows an alcove filled with personal items, including a teapot and toy ballerina, with the column’s title ‘Sublime Drizzlings’ in the background

Sublime Drizzlings: My Values

by Chloe Smith February 19, 2024February 19, 2024

How To Bring Up ‘The Talk’

by Ayaat Yassin-Kassab January 7, 2023January 7, 2023

Dream Come Blue: Session 2, Getting Into A Relationship

by Sophie Sargent November 11, 2022November 11, 2022

To go out or to not go out? That is the question.

by Hannah Kieve September 10, 2021September 10, 2021

COP30: Behind the Scenes

Elana Roberts Jan 20, 2026 18 min read

Image taken by Merna Elboghdady, used with her consent in the article. Shows the Global Youth Climate Training team at COP30.

Elana Roberts explores the importance, impact and limitations of COP30, which took place in Brazil. She first traces the historic significance of COPs before interviewing…

In defence of the assisted dying bill

Matt Donnelly Jan 20, 2026 4 min read

In defence of the assisted dying bill

The House of Lords by William Morrison Wyllie (1820–1895), Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons My grandmother died in 2020. At the end of her life,…

The Physicist Behind the Turl Street Orchestra: In Conversation with Dr. Felix Tennie

Luke Erly Dec 15, 2025 6 min read

Dr. Felix Tennie stands outside the Radcliffe Camera after our interview.

“If I had no music, I wouldn’t be as productive of a physicist. Whenever I don’t get to make music for a time, I become…

Snow

Nina Sablan Dec 15, 2025 3 min read

Snow

‘If something is frozen we say it’s unchanging — that it stays.’ Nina Sablan’s creative piece about snow and its effects on our landscape. Image…