Nestled in a quaint corner of Cowley, we are a house of Oxford University students from different colleges. Over a few months, our little crew has gone from strangers to friends.
One drunken night, we were discussing how Oxford is such a confusing place. There is so much to do, so much to see. We flit from tortoise races to alpaca petting, to pulling all-nighters and still getting utterly decimated by a tutor’s incisive comments. Oxford is walking past the oldest public museum in Europe on your way to get some milk from Tesco after an early morning row (at 5a.m!) while contemplating how to set up some new society. Some folks break down from the pressure and the intensity, crying alone in the library at a late night after a session in Plush.
Oxford is such a magical place, time passes so much faster here as well. We want to always try to be one-step ahead, a Sisyphean feat but one worth striving towards. Most of us study Economics and Management, and the pressure to jump on the career train is always pressing down on us.
Some of us know the most accomplished upper-class men who had shiny internships, having spent their early years grinding their way through career clubs. In typical Oxford fashion, they had a Blue and were genuinely affable, lovely people. Yet, they did not convert their final summer internship and were left without a job upon graduation. The stress they felt, of being cast out in a cold world after the magic of graduation, was palpable. That is what we are trying to avoid.
We will document our paths in Oxford and into entrepreneurship, finance and other careers. We want to build in public, our lives, our careers and unicorns alike. Maybe nobody but ourselves and our future/current spouses will read this. We acknowledge that being in this university confers a certain degree of privilege and advantage. We want to share about how we want to leverage that to become successful by our own definitions.
For privacy, we have adopted pseudonyms and will mix our posts in this blog. If anyone does realise who we are, please keep it quiet!