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…

The biggest time-waster: Studying. The problem with studying is that unlike past exams in your life which might have led up to university selection, few care about your university grades as much past this point. If I could turn back time, I would reallocate what little time I spent studying and spend it on careers,…