international student Archives

Identity

Who am I? Finding my identity between two languages

by Mai Nguyen December 13, 2025December 13, 2025

A man sits at a table alone, eating a bowl of ramen.

Columns

Risk Appetite: On Eating Alone

by Valerie Wu November 5, 2025November 4, 2025

Health and Wellbeing

A Guide to Surviving Oxford If You Don’t Drink (Much)

by Ngoc Diep (Alice) May 9, 2025May 9, 2025

a small cup of coffee on a multicoloured background

Identity

What makes somewhere home?

by Maryam AlKetbi February 26, 2025February 25, 2025

Lifestyle

Going Home for the Vac

by Ivett Berenyi December 10, 2024December 10, 2024

Identity

When it Rains in Oxford…

by Arani S Hazarika November 25, 2023November 25, 2023

Bonaly’s Backflip Returns to Olympic Ice

Thomas Yates May 2, 2026 4 min read

Figure skater Surya Bonaly, competing in 1992.

“She decided that she’d lose on her own terms. As a statement against judging bias, Bonaly performed the first and only illegal backflip on Olympic…

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

Coventry City's home ground, pictured in late 2025.

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

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…