Oxford Applicants for 2012 Entry

Lots of people here are attending the open days yes.

I'm applying for St John's as well! Maybe I'll see you at interviews? Hmm... Anyway, why did you end up choosing it? I'm curious to know about my (hopefully) future schoolmates

Big Amnesty isn't biased, or at least it tries very hard not to be. And its activities aren't pointless, if you look at this page you can see the effect of letter-writing.
(EDIT: this is a much better link than the one I gave about amnesty)


I had a slight problem with the UKMT thing, because as I mentioned before at some point, last year we only got 2/3 of the time we were meant to get and I broke my streak (a silver certificate! The shame!). And in S2 (Y9) I was off that day, and S3 (Y10) I was getting an injection, so I didn't sit it. In the end I settled for saying that I'd got best in school in every challenge I'd done, and a merit in the kangaroo in S4. Which is a little pathetic. Did you get into BMO1 this year?

Or a cricket match... I don't think there is a more boring sport in the world

What team do you support then

I know this isn't really any of my business, but I find your conversation to be quite amusing.

Cambridge are onto 110 pages (2193 posts) - not much left until we catch them!

*edit* Ninja'd by such_a_lady

Oh well... As you can see we like each other

I've been trying to learn Biblical Hebrew, rather than modern, so I win when it comes to uselessness I've been learning all this random Biblical vocabulary king, queen, prophet, various words for God, random verbs My course is quite "modern", though to be honest I'd prefer a more "systematic", old-fashioned course (how I learned Latin and Greek), but they're hard to find

Are you Jewish or just an obsessive judeophile like me?

I had a feeling another German would read it Oh well.....

As far as I know, Amnesty supports Tibetan independence, which is biased, misguided and not apolitical. That on its own is enough reason for me to disagree with them.

I have keened it out every year I got into BMO1 this year and I got 6. Out of 60. but that was because I hadn't learnt how to prove things yet. Ah well, it's a lot different to stuff like STEP or university maths

As far as I know, Amnesty supports Tibetan independence, which is biased, misguided and not apolitical. That on its own is enough reason for me to disagree with them.

I have keened it out every year I got into BMO1 this year and I got 6. Out of 60. but that was because I hadn't learnt how to prove things yet. Ah well, it's a lot different to stuff like STEP or university maths

Jewish Oh, those are my useless words. Though I've got a few more, like 'ear', 'beginning', 'shield'...

I'm now really, really curious about what's being said!

Not as far as I know. Maybe your school group has been accidentally letting their own feelings get through? That's happened in ours before. Check the official amnesty website.

6 isn't bad! I just did the olympiad for girls, out of 50, and we haven't heard our individual scores yet but the highest was 39 and the median was 2. I think I was around the 2 end.

Haha you mean football team? Since I am from Hamburg I support Hamburg. But usually they don't play CL so I support Bayern Munich, because they are the only German team that actually stands a chance against the big guys. In England I support Manchester United and Arsenal London As I can see, you are a ManU supporter

Hamburg! yes, you had the mighty Van Nistelrooy

I know "beginning" from Gen 1:1 (ignore my terrible tranliteration) "beresheet bara elohim eyt ha shamayim va et ha eretz..."

I've been trying to learn it for about two years, on and off. I never really spent a lot of time at it and it always took second place to Latin and Greek. I resolved this summer to learn it properly. (I used to know about types of verbs - piel, qal, niphil etc but I've forgotten what they all mean now and how to conjugate them )

If my school group said that then I would have gone on a proper rant at them. Nah, I read it somewhere on the internet, it might have been one of the more local Amnesty websites

Haha I know, the other guy in my year who did it got 3 but I was talking to some guy on this site afterwards who got 32
How did you find it? Abstract and weird?

You mean the college or the subject? Well, I think I wanted a big college and I've visited oxford before. The others don't seem to grab me. BTW the Balliol JCR is a ****hole. As for the subject, I LOVE chemistry. It's pretty much the only thing I can do without making reckless mistakes. I noticed that your location is Canada. Are you applying as an international?

Haha wow I'll avoid that JCR then. Cool! Yes I am applying as an international.

Any physics applicants ?Or am I the only one spending my time moaping about the notion of doing the PAT.

Yay! Just finished my first/second draft of my PS. I don't know which to count it as. My previous draft was complete drivel, so this may as well be my first draft.



Have a look at our spreadsheet, I think there's a few.
(By the way, is there some way someone could add it to the first post so everyone can see it?)