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[anotherusedpage]

Have now been in Oxford about thirty hours. Already been set first essay, and it's haaaaard. Last night the guy in the room next door got so pissed that he passed out with his door locked and his cd player going full volume. Walls here are paper thin. Finally managed to get him to wake up and turn it off at around three am. By that stage was beginning to wonder if he'd DIED with his door locked and his cd player on full volume. And there's only one other girl in my English set.
Other than that, having a great time. My room is freeeeeezing cold but has a view of the college building and the river. And I get to watch the Enland-Turkey game on widescreen TV with free booze and popcorn.

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[redfireborn.livejournal.com]

Essays the first day...? Bloody hell... The first stuff we got assigned to do were paragraphs to write to practise paragraph writing... But then again, we're talking Holland here, who're second in uni levels behind the UK.
And only one other girl? We've got way more girls than guys. S'funny, all these differences.
*envy* at the Turkey match though...

[anotherusedpage.livejournal.com]

More girls than guys was usual for English at Magdalen until last year, when it was a ratio of four girls to five boys. And actually BOTH me and the other girl in my class took a gap year, which means not a single girl passed interview in the year 2002. Fun, huh?
Turkey match should be fun.

[made-up.livejournal.com]

When I was there, many, *many* moons ago, the ratio at my college was 5:2 men to women, and about 10:1 twats to sensible people, and in the year above me, there was not one single girl from a state school. It's better now, I think, just about.

I really hope they're not still making you learn Anglo-Saxon. We all copied out our translations week in, week out from the year above...

But oh! am jealous too, ::remembers cycling to the English fac on frosty mornings, goes all misty::

[anotherusedpage.livejournal.com]

Yup, still learning Anglo Saxon. Had to get the text books today. Bloody scary things. But actually I quite like the idea.
And the sensible peopel:twats ratio doesn't seem to be tooo bad as far as you can tell in two days. Many people ares state school, I think, although I haven't really been asking.

[made-up.livejournal.com]

it is scary, but it's good stuff to read aloud. Some of the poetry is nice - 'The Wife's Lament' and all that, once you've got past old Cynewulf and Cyneheard and Aelfric writing letters to King Arthur about Bibles. Or is it the other way around?

have fun. ;)

[anotherusedpage.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we have translate this one random passage of King Alfred going on about the difficulties of translating things. Which is kinda ironic in a very lit. student way.
Many typos in previous comment show you how much I'd been drinking.

[lucy-lupin.livejournal.com]

So jealous about the England game. My residential college doesn't even have cable! As I've probably ranted about thousands of times on lj :)

YOur English classes are the reversal of what happens in New Zealand where about 90 % of the class is female. And my suspicions of Oxford students being partiers have been confirmed. I don't know how anyone can stay out so late yet still pass their courses. I need five hours of sleep minimum.

[anotherusedpage.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it. Five hours sleep minimum, but preferably more than that.
I don't actually think it's ALL Oxford students as such who are partiers, just Magdalan students, and specifically the people living in my hall, which is a massive sixties built monostrosity with the thinest walls you've ever seen. But hey, what the hell, it's Fresher's week, and at least it was decent rock music rather than god-awful pop or garage, which is vaguely encouraging. The rules say no music in rooms after 11.00, and I think the Deans will make us stick to it from next week. And if not, there're always ear plugs ;)

[uberwald.livejournal.com]

oh god, essays. *has flashbacks*

My neighbour in thin-walled-halls was into handbag house and had one of those alarm clocks that says 'get up you lazy bastard'. That was fun.