Oxford University

The city has a really nice feel to it, and with all the green areas it’s so pretty and you almost feel like you’re not in the city at all.
I want to go back :)

If you can, go punting along the river. It’s gorgeous. And the swans are amazing…

It’s loads emptier in the summer, but when I visited for research I expected rain rain and more rain, but in the 7 weeks I stayed, it only rained twice.

Definitely check out the Shakespeare plays they put on during the summer!

here i am, a grad student at oxford university. the intensity of it all is amazing – in terms of studying, social life, partying… it’s great. exhausting but great.

I stayed at Brasenose College, Oxford University for the summer in 2005. I loved it there. I really don’t think that people who live there appreciate how beautiful the entire town is, but, to a girl from a country town in the US, I was blown away!

i will be here starting september 2006 to do my postgrad in development studies. i have heard so much about it, and i know it will be the perfect learning environment – plus wicked student life… aaah. the joys of being a student.
i will be at wolfson college.

I was only there for a summer semester, ‘99.

I studied here, but whatever could do it anywhere

So that’s why I want to go there.

...is not how I’d describe Oxford. On the contrary, it is serious and ancient. I doubt that it has changed much since I visited there some 20 years ago. But that is a good thing, in the main.

Careful the little pubs and nooks. You may wander into a coterie of exclusives, and find yourself feeling quite out of place, indeed. But alas, that is part of the charm.