This will be my fourth year of bullet journalling. Over the years, my style of journalling has evolved from something elaborate to a rather less time-consuming minimalist layout, but the premise of my bullet journal remains the same: flexibility. I use my journal as a both a planner and a diary, filling it with deadlines, … Continue reading My 2019 Bullet Journal
The last few weeks of the year are a chance for meditation on my own life and a chance to ask myself questions. Often my resolutions are resolutions to continue the habits I have already built. Perhaps this seems arbitary, as if life is something we should constantly be improving by addition rather than see … Continue reading New Year’s Resolutions for 2019
Happy holidays! Time to bake gingerbread cookies, take lingering walks and watch films with my movie buff brothers. Wherever you are and whoever you are with, I hope this season brings you joy. The hidden history of Christmas pudding. The Christmas playlist to have on repeat (and my favourite Christmas album). A delicious recipe for … Continue reading Merry Christmas
And before I knew it, I was given the keys to my room and I was at Oxford, surrounded by the people who would soon become my found family. Fresher's Week was a blur of socials, workshops, repeated introductions and getting lost amongst those famous dreaming spires. After successfully navigating our first week of lectures, … Continue reading My First Term at Oxford University
Still looking for the perfect Christmas present? There are few better gifts than a well-chosen book. Fiction Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata is a beautifully deadpan account of an oddball shop assistant, equally comical and eerie, whilst Lisa Halliday's "strange and startlingly smart" debut novel Asymmetry is both a dizzying romance and a political roman à clef. The Great … Continue reading The Bibliophile’s Christmas Gift Guide
The Oxbridge interviews are fast approaching. As a current Oxford student, I remember the terror that interviews inspired in all of us here, so this is what I want to say to any student about to interview at Oxbridge. Fundamentally, the tutors are deciding whether or not they would like to teach you and whether … Continue reading Last Minute Oxbridge Interview Advice
I ducked into Southwark Cathedral, as peaceful and as still as one thousand years ago, except for the £1 photography charge. I was early to meet friends I’d met too late. Two years had passed too quickly. Now here was the result - an unacknowledged farewell on a sunny afternoon on the banks of the … Continue reading An Afternoon in London’s Southwark
