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"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

Exam Stress: Not Just A Stereotype

by Dhillon Lalji June 12, 2025June 12, 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: Exam Season

by Anonymous Author May 31, 2025May 31, 2025

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“Google, how do I revise?”: A guide to vac revision

by Niamh Stansfield March 14, 2025March 14, 2025

Theology course at the Sorbonne. Illumination from the end of the 15th century, Library of Troyes.

Are Lectures Worth Attending?

by Beatrice Sparrow February 18, 2025February 25, 2025

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Love Letters: Collections

by Lucy Pollock April 29, 2024April 29, 2024

How To Stay Collected With Collections

by Phoebe Walls February 8, 2023February 8, 2023

The Perfect Crime: Why Your Grades Could Be Wrong

by Lucy Heywood and Charlotte Gleed June 3, 2022June 24, 2022

The Shrink-In-Violet: Session 6, Exam Stress

by Elyse Airey June 1, 2022June 1, 2022

Oxford SU Condemns Plans to Impose £150 Trashing Fine

by Freya Jones April 22, 2022May 5, 2023

Which Is Better: Online or In-person Exams?

by Aniya Selvadurai April 14, 2022March 10, 2025

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…