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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

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Your College Auntie: Love is in the Air

by Anonymous Author February 9, 2025February 13, 2025

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Love Letters: Collections

by Lucy Pollock April 29, 2024April 29, 2024

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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

David Marmet’s Oleanna at New College, Oxford: Reviewed

Nancy Pierre May 1, 2026 5 min read

The two protagonists of Oleanna; the professor is reading an essay to his student.

David Mamet’s Oleanna is a difficult play. Difficult in that it raises hard questions about how we respond to claims of sexual harassment and imbalances…

Drama on and off the pitch: The 2025/26 Football League Championship

Thomas Yates Apr 30, 2026 7 min read

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Dhillon Lalji reports on the winners and losers in what has been yet another thrilling season in the Championship, the second tier of English football…

Risk Appetite: On Trying British Classics as an American

Eliza Kaminska-Benadat Apr 30, 2026 8 min read

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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”

Jas Inayat Singh Mauj Apr 30, 2026 4 min read

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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…