Oxford 2011 Freshers Chat Thread

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Reply 1960

Nah I just get the one with the prettiest cover :wink:

(kind of not joking...) and also some of them are £30ish - definitely not doing that. I try to find the cheapest too.
Really really not looking forward to medieval French litearture though...

Just buy the Folio edition http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chatelaine-Vergy-Folio-Jean-Dufornet/dp/2070388328/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1309106583&sr=8-1

Most people do, it's fairly cheap and you don't need the Lettres Gothiques one.

Also, the lectures and teaching for the medieval french are some of the best - most well thought out and interesting. You might be coming to a different college to be taught it as not all tutors teach it, which in itself is interesting. I wouldn't worry - you can just read it in modern french and quote in modern french in the exam if you want - but you might find (like me..) that it's really interesting!

Reply 1961

SephyStar

Hi, so hopefully doing medicine if A levels go ok...

Just wondering if any of the other medics have been sent a reading list yet as I haven't heard anything other than a letter about fees and am worried they might have forgotten me. Not that I'm complaining about not having to do a load of reading yet but it would be good to know.

Thanks

Reply 1962

LtCommanderData

Original post by soutioirsim

How busy do you guys think we'll be in freshers? It's just there is a gig at the O2 academy on the 6th October, Enter Shikari and Your Demise are playing!! I'm really tempted to buy some tickets but I don't want to miss out on anything in freshers :s-smilie:

O2 academy oxford? There's bound to be some non-essential freshers event on. How much do you like these bands, and how often will you get a chance to see them? You only have one first week at oxford (usually)!

Reply 1963

04ghicks

Original post by SephyStar

One of my friends is doing medicine next year too, and as far as I'm aware he hasn't been sent anything :smile:

I haven't been sent anything for geography yet, and there's a good few people in this thread who haven't got reading lists yet.

Reply 1964

Frankie

Original post by SephyStar

Hey fellow medic! :smile:

I've not been sent anything for medicine yet and I'm hopefully starting in october. I went onto the oxford medicine website and found a "suggested reading list" but I've not been specifically told/emailed anything important

Reply 1965

shinobi93

Original post by mcgovernjon

I usually use the same criteria for choosing editions. :smile:

I just bought a 1960s copy of Elton's The Practice of History because it had a gorgeous cover photo of a desk laid out with manuscripts and an open window looking out onto a meadow... it's a beauty :biggrin:

I do the same, although I'm not sure if that justifies wanting to spend £15 on a new jazz-age inspired copy of The Great Gatsby when I already have a cheap copy... :biggrin:

Reply 1966

~ Ellen Timothy ~

Original post by BeritV

Goooosh why is my name awesome?? :biggrin:

Haha because it's Zuzana! It's much more interesting than mine lol :tongue:

Reply 1967

mcgovernjon

Original post by shinobi93

I do the same, although I'm not sure if that justifies wanting to spend £15 on a new jazz-age inspired copy of The Great Gatsby when I already have a cheap copy... :biggrin:

Go on, treat yourself :biggrin:

Reply 1968

jenny18

I still don't have a reading list. :bawling:

I have found myself paid work for over the summer though,so that should keep me occupied until I hear from Lincoln. Also, on the few lists that I have found there are certain texts that keep cropping up so I'm going to read them. The KJB should be interesting...I'm not religious personally but I go to a very religious school so I am fairly immersed in what happens. Also, I do like the poetry.

Question for any English (or I suppose any linguists at all, I saw someone above talking about medieval french so I wonder if you have a similar choice to us Englanders (new collective noun there, thought I'd try it out))applicants: If you had to choose NOW between the Old English course and the one that is more modern, which would you do??

Myself??? I don't know. I tend to love whatever I happen to be reading at the time. I wouldn't want to do OE if it precluded doing Woolf and T.S Eliot etc...So I don't really know. :tongue:

Reply 1969

Salliana23

Finally finished my exams!! :woohoo:

Reply 1970

LtCommanderData

Physics exam was this morning, so at last I am done with my A-levels! :woo:

EDIT:

Original post by Salliana23

Finally finished my exams!! :woohoo:

Haha, funny timing

Reply 1971

mcgovernjon

Original post by Salliana23

Finally finished my exams!! :woohoo:

Original post by LtCommanderData

Physics exam was this morning, so at last I am done with my A-levels! :woo:

EDIT:

Haha, funny timing

Well done, you two :smile:

See you in October (hopefully!) :eek:

Reply 1972

LtCommanderData

Original post by mcgovernjon

Well done, you two :smile:

See you in October (hopefully!) :eek:

You said it! Cheers :smile:

Reply 1973

mcgovernjon

Original post by LtCommanderData

You said it! Cheers :smile:

Reply 1974

LtCommanderData

Original post by mcgovernjon

I don't get it...

Spoiler

Reply 1975

mcgovernjon

Original post by LtCommanderData

I don't get it...

Spoiler

Maybe it wasn't an accident. :biggrin:

Reply 1976

Can'tStandStill

I'm in a bit of a dilemma here, my exams are over this week and my results are given this sunday so I want to send them by e-mail to the admissions office. but I e-mailed the admissions office at my college a week ago asking how i should proceed and everything and I haven't received any answer. I was wondering if anyone knew the procedure since I;m international and my results don't go straight to the college.

Reply 1977

SephyStar

Original post by Frankie

Hey fellow medic! :smile:

Original post by 04ghicks

One of my friends is doing medicine next year too, and as far as I'm aware he hasn't been sent anything :smile:

I haven't been sent anything for geography yet, and there's a good few people in this thread who haven't got reading lists yet.

Thanks both of you. I shouldn't really worry but I am one of those people who thinks that there must be some kind of mistake and they're going to realise they shouldn't have offered me a place at all... Nice to meet a fellow medic, what college are you at? I do remember one of the tutors saying at an open day that when people asked for reading suggestions he told them to enjoy the last study free summer they'd have! The list on the website looks interesting but I might hold fire on buying massive textbooks before I know what I definitely need. I've read a couple of the lighter ones though :smile:

How did you both find your exams? So happy they're done, but don't want to think about results yet.

Reply 1978

brendan.

Okay, I take my previous post back. It seems that Oxford do in fact update track on the day..
I've been trawling through the results day thread from last year, and a few people had said that their track had updated around 6:30, so we will be able to check!