Category: Others

I’ve been called an immigrant by a stranger while walking to Gloucester Green at one point. I’ve also been spat on by the homeless woman pushing a doll in her pram (she’s the menace lurking around Cornmarket Street) and got called a chink. My friends have told me about random people coming up to them…

As an international student, I’ve come to cherish the relative safety of Oxford. Life here is calm, and being a student town is just peaceful. Even the clubs are friendly. The worst I’ve encountered was an older man hurling a racist slur at me—disheartening, but ultimately harmless in comparison to the more violent acts of…

Travel for free? This is something I wish I knew about a lot earlier. You can receive funding to go abroad – although taking a gap-year to travel might be difficult for those seeking to start their career ASAP, there are many options to seek funding for 3 month stints abroad. While Oxford is nice…

I over-indexed on studying – coming from a country where academic achievement is viewed with great emphasis, it took me a lot to cut through the programming of my earlier years. There are an incredible amount of areas that you should spend some time working on beyond academics, in order to fully explore this wonderful…