Oxford 2011 Freshers Chat Thread

2 days?! It's 5 for us and I'm jittery as hell, along with excited though.

Yeah, we got some Roman and Constitutional Law related stuff to read, basically just to make sure we aren't thrown into the deep end.

You?

Five? dayum.

My college wasn't told to read anything, actually, in stark contrast to some others that were actually told to write essays before getting there. I bought consti, civil and tort introduction books to read before I went anyway, though.

The civil and tort books are pretty much untouched still

Nice to see you too

How are things? I'm assuming you've been presented with an equally horrid reading list?

Excuse me, but what the hell are you doing here?

I've been good. Haven't packed despite the fact that I'm leaving in TWO DAYS, but I'm not panicking...yet!

Yup, I've got an 8 book reading list that I haven't touched! Yourself?



Gracing thsese poor, uneducated yobbos with my presence. I'm merely letting them see what they should aspire to be like.

Urgh, having a last minute 'college says apparently i have to have antivirus for my mac' panic.

Do we have lectures next week between Wed-Fri, when freshers week is? Or do the lectures start on week 1?

Nobody will bother to check for that, I wouldn't go out of your way to rush if I were you.

Lectures won't start til 1st week.

Dewsbury, I had to commute there for a week, so I'm assuming you weren't blown away by the place on your visit
We don't mention it when we're counting places in Yorkshire.

Hmm, if they allowed college collectives it could be done, might even forge new alliances, rather than just the rivalries that exist currently.

I wouldn't be too impressed, I just think it means that lots of people wanted to get onto the team but they didn't, so they made a second team.

At least you've done some preparatory work though, should stand you in good stead. Good luck anyway, although I'm sure you'll be fine anyway.

So I assume practically everybody here discussing rugby intends to play for their college Union team at the very least?

I stopped playing when I started A2 and I'm missing it to the point that I'm having rugby relating dreams.
I'm clearly very desperate to start playing again...

As is illustrated to your recent change of display picture icon thing

thats good, i was wondering where did you find this out from?

I haven't seen anything about it on the SF website. I'm starting to wonder if it's connected to whether you take out the maintenance loan, since I'm only getting the grant (income has still been assessed though, which I thought was the important thing). But I guess it'll sort itself out eventually.

So I assume practically everybody here discussing rugby intends to play for their college Union team at the very least?

I stopped playing when I started A2 and I'm missing it to the point that I'm having rugby relating dreams.
I'm clearly very desperate to start playing again...

I may well be wrong but my sister mentioned something about having to get the loan to be eligible for the OOB, as we were considering saving some debt and not taking the loan maybe next year, but then we'd lose our OOB or something so decided against that route.

Sorry if that's wrong or confusing!

Dewsbury, I had to commute there for a week, so I'm assuming you weren't blown away by the place on your visit
We don't mention it when we're counting places in Yorkshire.

So I assume practically everybody here discussing rugby intends to play for their college Union team at the very least?

I stopped playing when I started A2 and I'm missing it to the point that I'm having rugby relating dreams.
I'm clearly very desperate to start playing again...

We'll see, league does seem to be getting bigger 'daan saath' though. Surely colleges could pair up or something like that?
Nah, I'm from Newcastle but when I used to play league, back in the day, we had to go down to the deepest depths of the likes Batley and Dewsbury every week so it still is pretty Yorkshire-centric.

I'm impressed. St Hilda's

The qualifications don't mention that though, they just say if your household income is under a certain threshold as evidenced by SFE, then you'll get the OOB.