6 Questions You’ve Been Dying to Ask a First Year Oxford Biomedical Sciences Student

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3 Fresher Biomeds begin their Oxford journey after matriculation Question 1: What do I learn in the First Year Oxford Biomedical Sciences courses? The first year of the Oxford Biomedical Sciences course is designed to give a varied breadth of topics to allow students...

What’s Studying PPE at Oxford in First Year Actually Like?

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My (terribly messy) desk…Once you pick your options in years 2 and 3, no two Oxford PPE degrees are the same. Your degree can be highly mathematical, exclusively essay-based, or filled to the brim with statistical analysis and computing. There simply is no way...

A Typical Day in the Life of a First Year Oxford Medic

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What does it really mean to study Medicine at Oxford?You've probably heard that the Oxford Medicine degree means early-morning lectures; staring through a microscope in histology sessions; pointing out muscles on prosections; chalking up hours in beautiful...

7 days in the life of an Oxford Maths and Philosophy student

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The Oxford Maths and Philosophy course is intense, the workload is large and the concepts you cover are varied. A joint honours degree is incredibly rewarding, but time management is key and the weekly schedules are full on. An Overview of First Year Maths and...

How to Waste Freshers’ Week

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7 Mistakes to AvoidYour parents drop you off in your new room with teary eyes, as they grant you your final piece of independence. You've been looking forward to starting university all summer – the freedom, the course, the new people! But how can you make...