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[May. 3rd, 2008|08:33 pm] |
I see that Londoners have chosen the devil they don't know in place of the devil they do. I shall observe my fellow KS's future performance with considerable interest, and at a distance of several hundred miles.
In other news, my flatmates are looking to move to Oxford in the next few months (Nicola's starting an MSc) - can anyone offer some hints on Oxford flathunting? I was a wuss, and stayed in college accommodation for all four years, so can't be too much use. |
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[Dec. 17th, 2007|12:06 am] |
When I am rich, I will found Niue College, Oxford, whose main aim will be to be a more pleasant learning environment than New College. The importance of having a really good college bar, with good beers on draft at reasonable prices, which takes cash so guests don't have to get a college member to buy their drinks for them, and which opens at sensible times regardless of whether it's exam season or not*, will be written into College statutes. The Norrington Table will be cheerfully ignored (a strategy that works remarkably well for Balliol).
In other news, I'm finding this job application a serious pain. Counterintuitively, I'm getting through it only by telling myself that there's no chance I'll get the job and I don't really want it anyway** - it's the only thing that stops me fretting about every sentence and lets me write something down.
* When I was at New, the Warden, who would obviously have been happier teaching at Princeton and lost no opportunity to build his own miniature Princeton-on-Thames, tried to make the bar shut early during exam season to encourage undergraduates to work instead of drinking. The result? Students who went to the bar got turfed out early, and hence were more likely to go out clubbing; students who'd been working couldn't go to the bar for last orders, for a quick dose of beer-and-facetime to help them sleep. We did not hold a very high opinion of the Warden.
**I do, actually, it would be very cool to have. But it would involve moving to Canada, which would involve Difficult Life Decisions.
Edit: ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) wormwood_pearl suggests that it might be more amusing to call my college Maudlin College. To be pronounced "Magdalen" :-) |
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