St Anne's College, Oxford

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	St Anne's College
	Established:	1879
	University:	University of Oxford
	Address:	Woodstock Road Oxford, OX2 6HS, UK
	Telephone:	+44 (0)1865 274800
	Website:	www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk
	Student Union/JCR website:	www.stannesjcr.org
	Admittance:	Men and women

Location

Accommodation

The freshers accommodation is chosen for you and you have houses reserved. So all the Bevington road houses, gatehouse and ATB (above the bar, officially Banbury road) and there's a wide variety of room sizes ranging from mansions (almost) and shoe boxes (slight exaggeration).

Second-years are mostly in Wolfson, Rayne (big ugly grey ones at the back) and the shiny new Ruth Deech Building, mostly. They're all fairly small rooms (bigger than the small rooms in Bev road but not as big as the huge rooms in Bev road), with en suite bathrooms in the case of RDB. Third years are mostly in Trenaman house (probably the nicest accommodation), Claire Palley (opposite the JCR, quite nice too with en suite bathrooms) or the RDB. The best rooms in college are probably the enormous ones in Bevington road, where a few lucky freshers find they have to host everyone's parties...

RDB rooms have weeney little balconies (big enough to stand on and put out your washing), Gatehouse\Wolfson somewhat bigger with room to chill your booze stash in winter.

Social Spaces

The Hartland Room/JCR
Perhaps the most self-evident social space for undergraduates at St Anne's, the Hartland Room/JCR can be found in the college's main building, Hartland House. Equipped with a pool table, TV, several computers, a random assortment of chairs and sofas, and an even more random collection of newspapers, the Hartland Room is a popular place for some chilled-out relaxation. JCR meetings take place here on Sunday evenings.

College Bar
Recently refurbished, the college bar is a good place to go to in terms of both location (the Royal Oak is quite close to college, but not that close!) and price (drinks are substantially cheaper than in pubs and bars). A wide screen TV is mounted on the wall to meet all your sporting - or QI - needs, while slightly-more thrill seeking bar-goers can have a go on the pool table, the table football table, or the various pub games available. A small room off the main bar area also contains several comfy bean bags, board games, and - for the truly talented - a poorly-strung two string guitar.

St Anne's Coffee Shop (STACS)

TV Room

Library and Computing

Welfare

Atmosphere

St Anne's is genuinely quite an international college, and it's also pretty down-to-earth and chilled out about everything.

Facilities

The meal system is a bit interesting. Basically you pay £140 up front as part of your college bill (battels) and you use your University card a bit like a credit card to pay for meals. You can top up your card at any time and any money you don't spend gets taken off your next term's bill.

There is a choir, but from what I gather it's more for fun only & non-audition. If you want to join a 'better' choir, all of the audition-only ones at other colleges audition freshers at the start of Michaelmas.

There is also a small college darkroom which can be used as long as you provide your own materials (i.e. photopaper/film etc. - although the chemicals and instructions are provided).

Student-eye view

There are a lot of student profiles on the college's Alternative Prospectus website: http://alt.stannesjcr.org