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The Big College Clichés Thread

Make your comments and i will add them to this post... Be positive so just do your own college

All Souls College (Postgraduate):
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Balliol College :
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Braesnose College :
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Christ Church :
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Corpuse Christi College :
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Exeter College :
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Green College (Postgraduate):
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Harris Manchester College (Mature Students):
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Hertford College:
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Jesus College:
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Keble College:
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Kellogg College (Postgraduate):
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Lady Margaret Hall:
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Linacre College:
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Lincoln College:
- Small college in centre
- V.Close Community - can be renowned for gossiping
- Supposedly best food = what this means is hall is very healthy (3course meal every day) but our formal is the same as 1st hall, so some people are unimpressed by formal hall
- Library is a former church!
- Moderately good at sports (rowing, sailing cuppers, trampolining, netball), especially considering our small size
- Accomodation guaranteed for 3years; some consider it expensive but *most* of it is in the centre of Oxford
- Not strong politically and no over-whelming sense of state/independent school orientated

Magdalen College:
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Mansfield College:
- Smallest college in Oxford
- Poorest college in Oxford
- Very close atmosphere (some consider claustrophobic), but ultimately friendly people
- The only college I'm aware of that holds bops in the chapel
- Full of journo hacks
- About 5 mins' walk from the centre of town
- Within walking distance of most departments

Merton College:
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New College:
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Nuffield College (Postgraduate)
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Oriel College:
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Pembroke College:
- Generally very sporty
- Very good at rowing (Probably joint best rowing college with Oriel)
- Very social, friendly students (close relations with Worcester students at present)
- Very poor, college has a very small endowment
- Expensive 1st Yr accomodation (£600-1200 / term)
- Rich JCR, it came across a lot of money so every JCR meeting has free alcohol and pizza
- Physically small, hidden in the shadow of Christ Church, nonetheless has around 100 students per year (above average).
- Very good at economics (has more students doing economics than near any other college)
- "Real men wear pink", the college colour so all sports teams wear pink
- Very Central, 1 minute from carfax tower and sainsbury's

Queen's College:
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Somerville College:
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St Anne's College:
- A relatively newer college and one of the smaller ones (in terms of area) having a total of around 600 students.
- Located in Woodstock Rd, opposite Green with a 5-10 min walk to the city centre. But being close to the Engineering, Materials, Mathematics, Physics, Radcliffe Infirmary & Science Area means that there are quite a many students doing the above subjects.
- Has the reputation of being one of the poorer colleges but quite a many students I know have been given sufficient extra funding from the college- so they might not be that poor.
- Students are generally friendly- not too intrusive.
- An awesome library with friendly staff.
- Accommodation seems to be a problem but with the new block being built, hopefully, this would be solved for the undergrads. But 1/3 of the postgrads are not housed in the college accommodation.
- No chapel.
- Food: Apparently has a celebrity chef (this was mentioned in the Principal's mail) and the food is really good too & cheap. there are main meals from 1.25 pounds onwards. However MCR dinners are slightly expensive at 14.5 per head- but it's worth it.

St Antony's College:
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St Catherine's College:
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St Cross College (Postgraduate):
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St Edmund Hall:
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St Hilda's College (Girls):
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St Hugh's College:
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St John's College:
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St Peter's College:
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Templeton College (Postgraduate):
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Trinity College:
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University College:
- 1st year rooms quite nice, second year ones good to amazing, third years in North Oxford/live out (all around £750 per term)
- relatively apathetic politically, despite having educated 3 20th century PMs, a president of Australia and a president of the USA
- beautiful hall
- great library - lovely building, nice to work it, loads of books, buys any you want it to
- loads of bursaries - 1 in 6 Univ students has a full (ie. £3000pa+) bursary due to donations from old members
- cheap food with good and frequent formal hall (6 days a week)
- right next to exam schools
- oldest college in Oxford, founded in 1249

Wadham College:
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Wolfson College (Postgraduate):
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Worcester College:
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Reply 1

Focker

St Johns : The richest (?) college in Oxford and a little stuck up :smile:

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Only a cliche

Reply 2

johnny bravo

Focker

St Johns : The richest (?) college in Oxford and a little stuck up :smile:

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Only a cliche

you're not at john's are you.................

Reply 3

Hoofbeat

Lincoln College:
*Small college in centre
*V.Close Community - can be renowned for gossiping
*Supposedly best food = what this means is hall is very healthy (3course meal every day) but our formal is the same as 1st hall, so some people are unimpressed by formal hall
*Library is a former church!
*Moderately good at sports (rowing, sailing cuppers, trampolining, netball), especially considering our small size
*Accomodation guaranteed for 3years; some consider it expensive but *most* of it is in the centre of Oxford
*Not strong politically and no over-whelming sense of state/independent school orientated

That's all I can think of for the moment and I need to start revising before heading down to the river!

Reply 4

KuinKra

Mansfield College:
- Smallest college in Oxford
- Poorest college in Oxford
- Very close atmosphere (some consider claustrophobic), but ultimately friendly people
- The only college I'm aware of that holds bops in the chapel
- Full of journo hacks
- About 5 mins' walk from the centre of town
- Within walking distance of most departments

Reply 5

RxB

K'uin K'ra

Mansfield College:
- The only college I'm aware of that holds bops in the chapel

Greyfriars?
(I'll do Hertford later)

Reply 6

fleur-de-lis

St Anne's:

A relatively newer college and one of the smaller ones (in terms of area) having a total of around 600 students.

Located in Woodstock Rd, opposite Green with a 5-10 min walk to the city centre. But being close to the Engineering, Materials, Mathematics, Physics, Radcliffe Infirmary & Science Area means that there are quite a many students doing the above subjects.

Has the reputation of being one of the poorer colleges but quite a many students I know have been given sufficient extra funding from the college- so they might not be that poor.

Students are generally friendly- not too intrusive.

Has got some notable individuals in the board of Fellows- but then, most colleges have! :smile:

An awesome library with friendly staff.

Accommodation seems to be a problem but with the new block being built, hopefully, this would be solved for the undergrads. But 1/3 of the postgrads are not housed in the college accommodation.

No chapel.

Hosts quite a many conferences.

Sports- I just know that 4 of the OURFC rugby winning team were from St Anne's- there is a joint rugby team with St Johns. I think that the rowing team is pretty good too. Ultimate frisbee seems to be popular :biggrin:

Food: Apparently has a celebrity chef (this was mentioned in the Principal's mail) and the food is really good too & cheap. there are main meals from 1.25 pounds onwards. However MCR dinners are slightly expensive at 14.5 per head- but it's worth it.

Reply 7

Hoofbeat

K'uin K'ra

The only college I'm aware of that holds bops in the chapel

I thought that was only while you didn't have a JCR? :confused:

Reply 8

KuinKra

Hoofbeat

I thought that was only while you didn't have a JCR? :confused:

Yeah, but it was still worth a mention regardless.

Reply 9

Drogue

Univ
- 1st year rooms quite nice, second year ones good to amazing, third years in North Oxford/live out (all around £750 per term)
- relatively apathetic politically, despite having educated 3 20th century PMs, a president of Australia and a president of the USA
- beautiful hall
- great library - lovely building, nice to work it, loads of books, buys any you want it to
- loads of bursaries - 1 in 6 Univ students has a full (ie. £3000pa+) bursary due to donations from old members
- cheap food with good and frequent formal hall (6 days a week)
- right next to exam schools
- oldest college in Oxford, founded in 1249

All Souls isn't postgrad, it's a fellows college. Technically invitation only, with strange rules for entry.

Reply 10

Drogue

K'uin K'ra

Mansfield College:
- Poorest college in Oxford

Harris Manchester. Has less than £2 million in assets.

Reply 11

DaKewLesT

Drogue

Univ

- oldest college in Oxford,

ohh, controversial...

Reply 12

Drogue

Not really. The university is quoted as saying that, as well as stating that Oxford University was founded in 1249 as well. The only way it isn't is if you believe a college dates to the date it's current buildings were built, which since Univ was demolished and rebuilt makes Merton the oldest. We admitted students to Oxford University before any other college had it's first buildings, it's just that while Balliol and Merton grew and became larger colleges, Univ only admitted 6 or 7 students until it moved in the 16th century.

Reply 13

oriel historian

Although Saint Edmund Hall is the oldest education building that is part of Oxford University...though as you say Merton, Balliol and Univ each have pretensions to the title. Though technically it is Teddy Hall. Some one read the history of Oxford University and solve this!

Reply 14

Drogue

Do you mean building still standing? If so, and with your narrow definition of only educational buildings, it may be correct. However Balliol and Merton still have buildings that are part of college that date from before Teddy Hall's foundation.

Really the only date any college every uses is the date it was founded - all of these mentioned do not publicise the date they had their first buildings built, or the date they had anything else - and in this case it's Univ, Balliol/Merton then Teddy Hall.

Reply 15

oriel historian

I do agree with you Drogue, that in the "who is the oldest college" stakes Univ wins, I was just pointing out that in terms of places of education that make up the university as it stands now Teddy Hall is the oldest.

Reply 16

homabahrami

Merton is the oldest college in that it was first to get the legislation through parliament saying it was a "college" (or something). also, we have the oldest quad. so i think we win.

Reply 17

fleur-de-lis

Tom Holder

Make your comments and i will add them to this post... Be positive so just do your own college
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Could you please move the comments in St Catz section to St Anne's? I had written about St Anne's!

Reply 18

stupid straw

These are truths about Hertford, regardless of whether or not they're cliches too.

It is full of state school Northerners and Londoners, most of whom are boozy, ill-mannered, loud, hateful inverse-snobs. The student body is generally the most apathetic in all of Oxford: excepting a few hacks of different varieties, they basically only ever go out clubbing or kebabbing. Even their branches of University societies (eg, Christian Union) are unenthusiastically and poorly run.

The college itself is poor and consequently cheap, grotty and nasty in all most every possible way. Terrible rooms in all years (except for about five or six) - even finalists rooms being smelly and beaten-up and with thin walls. Typically lazy and incompetent scouts. Revoltingly-maintained bathrooms and toilets. Probably the worst food in any Oxford college - basically Meat X and Sauted Potatoes every night. (This meat being invariably processed or, if not, still managing to reach us in a completely unrecognisable state).

It has an incredibly cliquey atmosphere (typically misconstrued by members of these cliques as being 'friendly').

The tutors are inattentive and impersonal, and quite a few are terminally incompetent and should have been fired years ago. Those responsible for discipline and welfare are even worse and should all be shot. (With something non-lethal of course, like farmyard animals from enormous, high-powered catapaults).

Its buildings are an ugly off-grey sandstone, depressingly overcast by the Bodleian and shamed considerably by surrounding buildings (Rad Cam, All Souls, BNC). It has only one quad that you could actually call a quad - and, whilst pretty, it is minute and has a few obscenely ugly concrete bins erupting bizarrely out of its concrete paths. (The other quads actually consist of a) a car park, and b) a tree and several bike racks).

And the porters are loathsome too.

Don't come here. It is terrible.