Oxford 2011 Freshers Chat Thread

Its on the college website under 'coping with exams' or something like that. I found it a rather unnerving and tactless thing to write!

"Nervous? Don't be! We have drugs!"

Whoa whoa whoa carefull! Each survey is individually tied to the person it is sent to! You put in numbers and it matches it to your name. Its not a general survey! If you had put in your UMS results, they would have come up as qwertyuiop1993's personal results. Eeek.

Clothes are about functionality and appearance. The whole of fashion is based around wearing not just what you like the appearance of but what projects whatever image it is you want to project, and life is about striking that balance. /musing

Your first paragraph kinda clashes with "embarassed to go to Oxford", though. What's embarassing about going to a great uni?

Our freshers' t-shirts are £11, and we had to pre-order ... I haven't bought one!

I'm going to buy a scarf instead

Out of interest, is anybody going to be buying college hoodies/t-shirts, or is that a total faux pas?

Ours are made of organic cotton or something, so maybe that's why we have to pay so much for them ...

So how much stuff are you guys taking?? I think, no I know I am bringing too much!! A week and a few days left now

Christ Church's freshers' t-shirts are £7. I've ordered that and the college hoody, so I'm hoping it's not a social faux pas!
I think I'm going to get my parents to buy me the college scarf at Christmas..

Do you know where you can order college T-shirts or do you have to order from your own college because I haven't heard anything from mine about t-shirts

I'm bringing two cars (so we can fit the bike in) and intend to fill them quite effectively!

Its on the college website under 'coping with exams' or something like that. I found it a rather unnerving and tactless thing to write!

"Nervous? Don't be! We have drugs!"

Maybe they had a spate of people dealing with stress in less healthy ways; sleeping pills are not a bad thing if they're instead of people taking drugs or feeling suicidal. And the college handbook is for everyone, not just freshers.

I'm only bringing one, but I am leaving my sister at home so that I can fit more things in the car

I'm only kind of joking. She doesn't want to come because she doesn't want to miss a day of school how quickly she'll learn, oh naive year 9 that she is

Better to advise, contain and control.