Oxford graduate students 2008/2009

Oops. St. Antony's is actually where most of my teaching is supposed to take place and it doesn't look so far away on the map? I wouldn't mind walking to classes. Living on the outskirts is a different topic, though. One year at Brookes was enough

Yeah, to be honest that's part of the reason I'm not madly keen. Having been at Oriel before, which is bang-smack in the centre of Oxford this is a big shift and it's more expensive than Oriel would have been as well. Grr

As for St Anthony's it's next door to St Anne's and only a 10 minute walk into town let alone cycling. Depending on lights you can be in town in like 5 minutes. Don't worry about it at all.

No, you are in fact dead right, it is further out! Sorry, I have no sense of direction. LOL! Actually it looks pretty close to St Anthony's so that's good for you.

5-10min sounds great indeed.

By the way, how come you were allocated to Wolfson? Were you already rejected from both of you preferred colleges?

Yeah, to be honest that's part of the reason I'm not madly keen. Having been at Oriel before, which is bang-smack in the centre of Oxford this is a big shift and it's more expensive than Oriel would have been as well. Grr

Meh, fair enough, but at the end of the day, no-one's forcing you to accept the offer if you think it's going to affect your well-being that much.

But if it's any consolation to you, the university has an excellent internet connection.

You're just spoilt, then.

I spent three years at Hilda's, which is supposedly one of the "remote" colleges, but in reality, those few extra minutes really weren't as big a deal as people from central colleges often make them out to be.

I hear the university itself has an excellent reputation, as well.. So in the worst-case scenario, I'll just spend my time surfing the fast Internet from Wolfson

@ Oriel Historian, sorry to hear that. But you spent three years at one of the nicer colleges, maybe you'll be able to tolerate Wolfson? Good luck sorting out the supervisor issue, though.

Heh, well nah Hilda's is no more "out" than Magdalen. Plus just being over the bridge provides a nice relaxing walk into town. The view from Hilda's is lovely so it makes up for it. I mean in Oriel you have the High, Christ Church, or the bits of Magpie Lane. I'd take the river and the meadows over the High any day.

Bless you. Could you please repeat this next time another bloody applicant moans about not wanting to go there because it's "miles away from everywhere"?

Hehe, uni network is amazing ... when the college connection works, eh Hobnob! And yeah really college is a quibble about absolutely nothing. Besides the international / egalitarian outlook of Wolfson is perhaps better suited to a socialist like me than T'Oriel

Ah but at home it's a 5 MILE walk to town so... 2 minutes over Magdalen Bridge is just plain silly. As for Wolfson, it's like 20 minutes but god I'm dreading cycling back in the pouring rain of a Hilary Term. Icky.

I assume all P2P applications apart from Skype are not allowed, though?

I would like to emphasise the fact that I do not fit into the "miles away from everywhere" category This is also the eternal discussion here at Warwick. And it's more about a 10min walk. I just don't want to live in a concrete palace. Okay, other colleges also have their ugly postgrad housing, but Wolfson is furthest away from having a Harry Potter experience. Now you have it! Another pretentious international who'd only go to Oxford if they offered him a room in a castle

Ugh, I know what you mean. But then again, without horrible Hilary, we'd never be able to appreciate Trinity properly...

'fraid not. Unless you live out and have your own connection, obviously. Or will you be doing a one-year course?

The Castle's at Durham I'm afraid! Though you could have a bed in the now very expensive prison if you like... To be honest postgraduate accommodation is rarely on site and is therefore almost entirely unlikely to be the 'Harry Potter' experience, which unless you applied for Christ Church is unlikely to be garnered anyway. Besides, you can go into the Old Bod and visit the Divinity School anytime, or the Duke Humfrey Library both of which feature in the films.

Over all though a room is just that. If you want the rest work elsewhere. As a p/grad you're less likely to *need* the harry potter mollycuddling since you're a serious student now, not these u/grads with their free time!

Is this what happens when you leave Oxford for a year and look forward to going back? The mists of the meadows cloud everything in a rosy tint! I wish they'd tell me about the AHRC quota allocations though.