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Love it.

Can we study in the main Bodleian Library and Radcliffe Camera even if they don't house books for our subjects? Does anyone ever do this?

Can we study in the main Bodleian Library and Radcliffe Camera even if they don't house books for our subjects? Does anyone ever do this?

If you're ordering from the stacks, you can ask it to be sent to a library other than the one for your subject (unless things have changed since my time). So for example in the run-up to Finals, my tutorial partner would order as many books as feasible to the Taylorian, as it was just across the road from us

Yes, yes.

Thank you! I just hope people won't be annoyed if I'm 'taking up space' at their library :P

Yes, yes.

Is the RadCam a crowded place to study?

Yes, like mad. The lower areas though, the interlinking passage way between the Rad Cam and the Bod proper, are usually more quite.

Yes, like mad. The lower areas though, the interlinking passage way between the Rad Cam and the Bod proper, are usually more quite.

You have to consider that the History Faculty Library is moving to the Rad Cam next year, though, that will change a few things.

Anyone have a good idea of the accommodation at Univ or Magdalen? Do ensuites actually shape up to be decent and are the rooms suitably warm? I've heard that sometimes it can get a bit nippy in the winter/colder months.

How relaxed in terms of work load are your holidays both between terms and in summer. I ask from a science perspective but all responses very welcome

Thanks

Anyone have a good idea of the accommodation at Univ or Magdalen? Do ensuites actually shape up to be decent and are the rooms suitably warm? I've heard that sometimes it can get a bit nippy in the winter/colder months.

How relaxed in terms of work load are your holidays both between terms and in summer. I ask from a science perspective but all responses very welcome

Thanks

I've been told that in theory we're supposed to be working in vacations at 2/3 the termtime workload. No-one actually sticks to that, but it gives you the idea that the work doesn't stop just because you're not in Oxford (and they deliberately call them vacations rather than holidays for that reason). Terms are so short that you cover something in lectures, do a problem sheet on it, then get to grips with it in a tutorial, and then immediately move on to the next thing, so vacations are good for consolidating what you've covered at a more comfortable pace.

Don't let that sound terrifying and scary (most people I know didn't work particularly hard in any of the last vacations) but be aware that the expectation is there.

you mean the Gladstone Link? I'd say it's just as packed usually, since it has a wider variety of books but less space. You have to consider that the History Faculty Library is moving to the Rad Cam next year, though, that will change a few things.