Balliol College (Oxford) Students and Applicants

so, if we get in, do we mainly rely on the main hall for food? ...if so, i should probably not be planning on buying pots, pans and coordinating plates? :/

Well in addition to the apparently few kitchenettes apparently the college has quite a popular Cafe/Pantry that serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. This is the main alternative to hall food and I hear it's pretty decent. Perhaps a current student can shed more light on it.

There's more info on this kind of stuff here:
http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Balliol_For_Beginners_2010.pdf

I submitted my photo online today. It's so bad.

yep - was yours a passport photo? mine was awful...

Yeah, I'd got it for a passport I'd just sent off for and just used it for this too. I'm really pale in it, I look like a corpse.

haha never good, what are they using them for?

. Or hold my head at a better angle for photos in future!

haha - i always look awful in photos, seem to be at all the wrong moments and end up looking like an idiot.

What course u doing btw??

Our Bod cards, I assume. Three years of staring at it every time I go to eat or get a book and whatever else it's used for. Great. Still, at least the bit of a double chin I have in it might motivate me to lose some weight. Or hold my head at a better angle for photos in future!

hmm I thought the photo we sent with the university contract was for the bod card?

I think the photo we uploaded online was for the college itself...I dont know if we get a balliol card

Haha I think they also put on a noticeboard next to your name in the jcr (so you match faces to names quicker)... though perhaps that's a different photo

History and politics.

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