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Hello! Wannabe-Oxonian (but who isn't one, really).

(I was recently directed here from a friend at college_help and I was just looking for some tips.)

I'm still a lowly high school student but have been dreaming of Oxford since I was an eight-year-old. Since it's now my time to start the college search crack down, I've begun to seriously look into it- and now I' ( Read more... )

Ba-Laylah Productions is proud to present a new translation of Luigi Pirandello's As You Desire Me at the OFS Studio, showing Tuesday-Saturday, 7:30 pm with a 2:30 Saturday matinee. This play, described as a "a magnificent performance" "thoroughly good...engaging, atmosphere theatre," and "definitely a play to watch" by What's On Stage, is the ( Read more... )

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I'm a Year 12 student, studying English Language and Literature (Combined course), French, Maths and Computing up in Lancashire. I'm thinking of applying to Balliol or possibly Magdalen College to study English; I was wondering if anyone studying the course could give me some information on it. I've looked at the course outline several times, but ( Read more... )

Any Oxford alumns here who live in the Seattle, WA area?

If so, you may be interested to know that we've got a fledgling Oxford University Society for WA now. (So fledgling that I attended the planning meeting last weekend.) For further bare-bones information, visit the Group on Facebook:
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This is a shout out to anyone who applied for Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at Oxford this year and anyone currently enrolled there.

Any advice on what they are looking for and a way to let them know just how badly I want to get in without seeming desperate or trite? Also Im an international student- how does that weigh in? Thanks in

Hi,

Does anybody have a scholar's gown they'd like to sell on? Otherwise any tips on where to look for second hand gowns would be great. I don't really fancy paying forty quid to get a new one!

ETA: Slightly belated thanks to everyone for the useful advice!

We are about to get a cat, and are looking for a vet in the East Oxford area. Can anyone recommend one?

Thanks!

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I'm writing the literature review for my thesis, and I found an obscure little publication based on a conference paper that apparently deals with the history of history about my subject. Now, I've been given the runaround by the interlibrary loans people at my university for a while now, but I finally got an answer and it turns out they can't get ( Read more... )