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Sommerville, Brasenose, Wadham or Keble?

xhellox

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Somerville, Brasenose, Wadham or Keble?

Which one is best?! What do they all have to offer? Cheers! :smile:

Reply 1

d750

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You'll probably get a more helpful response on OxGoss.

Go on, give it a go.

Reply 2

xhellox

OP

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But im scared!! :redface:

Reply 3

F. Poste

I go to Somerville and I love it. I'd highly recommend it, although it's not the poshest college it's laid back and fun. The people are really friendly and we have a quad that we're allowed to walk on and sit on (which is really appreciated now it's Trinity and sunny!). If you want to know anything specific, just let me know and I'll answer any questions you have :smile:

Reply 4

d750

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xXxKatiexXx

But im scared!! :redface:

With good reason.

Those 4 colleges you've singled out have quite different characters, so you shouldn't have too much trouble in choosing between them. These are inaccurate stereotypes, but it generally said:

Somerville - Prides itself on being relaxed and friendly. Fairly active university wide.
BNC - Sports-prominent. Considered right-wing politically. Reputation as a "Rah" college
Wadham - Politically active. Left-wing.
Keeble - Fairly low-profile. Generally unremarkable and hard to pin down.

Reply 5

xhellox

OP

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Thanks, thats exactly the kind of straight forward advice i hoped for! You say BNC is sporty, are there any other particularly sporty colleges, i play lots of sport esp. tennis!

Reply 6

d750

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xXxKatiexXx

Thanks, thats exactly the kind of straight forward advice i hoped for! You say BNC is sporty, are there any other particularly sporty colleges, i play lots of sport esp. tennis!

I think St. John's is generally thought of as the sporty college. But I think that just means that its thought to take the main team sports the most seriously. Not really sure about others.

But there probably aren't many with their own tennis courts, so you might want to look into that.

Reply 7

Johnny 5

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Somerville. :smile:

And stay away from OxGoss... hell, if they ever found out what username was mine, they'd kill me. Or at least ban the account. :p:

Reply 8

RichE

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d750

I think St. John's is generally thought of as the sporty college. But I think that just means that its thought to take the main team sports the most seriously. Not really sure about others.

But there probably aren't many with their own tennis courts, so you might want to look into that.

I'm not sure this was seriously written, but then again it didn't come with emoticons.

St John's is an academic college, not that sporty at all, and often can only produce teams in major sports by joining with some of the other colleges (e.g st anne's)

In my experience, the colleges I know (hardly all of them) have had their own tennis courts.

Reply 9

RichE

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But again, as you're thinking of a small joint-honours school, how many do the subject at each should at least be as important.

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d750

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RichE

I'm not sure this was seriously written, but then again it didn't come with emoticons.

It was intended to be serious. So here's an appropriate emoticon. :redface:

My view of St. John's may be skewed by the fact that whenever we played them they took the game a little bit too seriously. And they never had any trouble fielding a full team - it was us who always had to join forces with another college to make up the numbers.

Which colleges have tennis courts, then? I only know of one (my own - and we're particularly proud of it, despite the fact that it's lumpy)

Reply 12

Bezza

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RichE

St John's is an academic college, not that sporty at all

Well their Christchurch Regatta 1st boat wasn't very good :biggrin:

And as for tennis courts, we have hard courts we can use all year plus grass courts for trinity term, though I've never made it to them. I have played squash a few times, and have my tennis racket with me so we'll see if I make it!

Reply 13

RichE

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d750

It was intended to be serious. So here's an appropriate emoticon. :redface:

My view of St. John's may be skewed by the fact that whenever we played them they took the game a little bit too seriously. And they never had any trouble fielding a full team - it was us who always had to join forces with another college to make up the numbers.

Which colleges have tennis courts, then? I only know of one (my own - and we're particularly proud of it, despite the fact that it's lumpy)

St Johns were a low second division football side this year - and in rugby they join with st annes in order to field a team. I don't know what their other sports are like but they're certainly not THE sporting college, though they may have other sporting strengths.

Worcester, Queen's, Jesus, Balliol, Keble, Lincoln all have tennis courts (that I know of) and I imagine there are plenty of others.

Reply 14

RichE

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Bezza

Well their Christchurch Regatta 1st boat wasn't very good :biggrin:

And as for tennis courts, we have hard courts we can use all year plus grass courts for trinity term, though I've never made it to them. I have played squash a few times, and have my tennis racket with me so we'll see if I make it!

How did SJC1 do? Though you're talking to someone who doesn't really consider rowing to be a sport, or at least not an interesting one, so I'm not really sure why I'm asking. :rolleyes:

Reply 15

Bezza

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RichE

How did SJC1 do? Though you're talking to someone who doesn't really consider rowing to be a sport, or at least not an interesting one, so I'm not really sure why I'm asking. :rolleyes:

They lost in the final by a couple of lengths to a much better magdalen boat :wink:

(I don't row any more so you can slag it off all you like! It was good fun though, and I expect chloé will have something to say about it being a proper sport!)

Reply 16

Hoofbeat

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Bezza

I expect chloé will have something to say about it being a proper sport!)

I don't even need to bother defending it...it does that itself by looking at past Olympic performances!

Anyways, I have my first outing of the term this evening...just hope it stops raining...it was bad enough getting soaked cycling back from lectures!

Reply 17

Bezza

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Hoofbeat

Anyways, I have my first outing of the term this evening...just hope it stops raining...it was bad enough getting soaked cycling back from lectures!

At least you had a coat - I got so wet I had to change my trousers when I got back!

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