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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

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: 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

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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

Peter Pan Prison: The Infantilisation of Autistic Adults

Isobel Gurnett Feb 27, 2026 9 min read

Infant sits on a slide, looking off to the side.

Isobel Gurnett discusses the stereotyping and infantalisation that autistic adults are subjected to in their day-to-day lives, and the associated pressure to mask their neurodivergence.…

A Closer Look: India’s “Hidden Crisis”

Nancy Gittus Feb 27, 2026 7 min read

Rally conducted by students of the Department of Psychology during the World Mental Health Day 2014 at Periyar University, Salem, India.

“Do you think there is a crisis in mental healthcare in India today?” I ask Dr Manoj Therayil Kumar, Director of the Institute for Mind…

Oxford SU Postgraduate Storytelling Series Discusses the International Student Experience

Amaan Effendi Feb 27, 2026 6 min read

Oxford SU Postgraduate Storytelling Series Discusses the International Student Experience

On Wednesday 25 February, the Oxford University Students’ Union organised a session of its Postgraduate Storytelling Series, titled ‘Journeys of Hope: The International Student Experience…

New Years’ Resolution

Olivia-Mae Butterfield Feb 26, 2026 1 min read

New Years’ Resolution

As the clock struck midnight, the world felt a change. For the ten thousandth year, the ball creaked downwards. Hoping for change and color, all…