Anyone here Oxbridge Alumni?

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If so please state- year you graduated, college and course

I am curious to see who went- with A levels coming out today, takes me back to when i was waiting for my A level results, dont think i slept all week :(

2006- Girton- Vet. sciences

Twelve - TP lived on my brother's staircase. That is the only reason I recognise him I am a philistine and a filthy Tab after all.

Another cantab english grad here. Don't want to completely out myself but part of a college mentioned a couple of times already. Early 90s.

No Oblivion experiences here I'm afraid - either they were after my time or they passed me by. Really outing myself here, but one of my fondest memories is of co-directing Salad Days in New College cloisters with Patrick Gale as Tim. Good times..

Don't think so MotherInferior but I agree with you about dodgy college boyfriends. Lord what a shower they were!

Cointreau a couple of Chemist friends from my year would still have been there as DPhil students in your time - Barbara Domayne-Hayman and Sarah Holland.

medicine at New Hall.... not giving my year away though.... there werent that many of us!

1987, SPC Oxford, English.

Older than anyone on here, LMH, English (how I wish I had done something else now). Married someone who went to both.

I have a long-term aim to go round each of the colleges with a member of each one. I'll offer a tour of mine (though it won't be too enlightening - 'this is the bar, this is the canteen. Oh sorry, it was the canteen 25 years ago. This was my room and this was the room of the guy I was shagging. And here's the room he caught me stumbling out of half dressed with somebody else when there was a fire alarm. But it was much more complicated than it sounds'.)

I was at Fitz too - graduated in 1998 (four year course)

Cambridge, matric late 1990s.

I put faaaar too much personal info on MN to post more than that!

But I married a contemporary from the same college. Not unusually.

Jesus (Cantab) Matric 1993, History.

To anyone who knew me, I am less of a piss head boatie twat now, or at least, I've given up rowing

Waves back to hates - we must've overlapped!

Can any Peterhouse people enlighten me about the ghost thing? The Fellow supervising me would get very cagy about it. Not in a wind-up way, either, in a "this is private college business" way. Other people had similar experiences when trying to ask about it.

I do not miss the condensed sweat dripping on our heads from the cellar bars. That was so rank. Especially if you worked behind the bar, and had to clear away after everyone left and it cooled down enough to rain sweat.

No not Pembroke, but that comment just about sums up what I find objectionable about the whole college thing.

Jenny, it was a joke. Its not how I live my life and form my opinions nowadays. If this were a thread about another town there might be jokes about which football team you support, not the same as condoning football violence.
For what it's worth I'm a bit ambivalent about Oxford too and there are things that increasingly rankle with me with hindsight, some of the drinking society traditions for example, and the casual bullying and sexual harassment the tute system allows. But this is a light hearted thread of fond memories, so if some of those include standing on a riverbank shouting 'House House House!' I think that's pretty harmless.

You had a pop first jenny. It is no different calling Christ Church 'House' than saying 'Teddy's' or 'St Catz', it's just a nickname that members affectionately.

Doesn't sound like you enjoyed Oxford much but these no need to sneer at those that did. These are people childhood memories.

perfectstorm an old bursar hanged himself in the combination room in the 18th century and the dining staff used to report seeing his ghost walking round with amazing regularity. Apparently some academics refused to dine at Peterhouse because of the slightly dubious food the ghost.

Pottering - Mr G - defo not Dr P!!

joanofarchitrave (good name, BTW) - one of the more entertaining things about being in a single sex college was the fact that when the fire alarm went off at 6am it was very obvious which man had emerged from which room (and how that did or did not correlate with who they were supposedly going out with). Giving a tour of Somerville nowadays would be hard, since you need a card key to get anywhere beyond the lodge.

Homerton 1999 did a PGCE. So doesn't count really . But I do get a Cam Card :)

Flotilla - it was certainly a juggling act being a single mother at Oxford. I was lucky that Wadham was so accommodating, helpful and supportive. Also, doing a history degree meant I could fit studying and writing essays around DD's time at nursery. But it was definitely tough.

Story here

FreckledLeopard - interesting story - and well done you. It would be entertaining if your DD chose to go to Oxford - she could reasonably claim it was her second time.

I guess the "first" about it was that you had DD when you went up. There was someone in my year who had a baby in her second year and stayed and continued with her degree. I have been googling, as Rachel Sylvester (now of the Times) was, IIRC (and I may not), one of the people who shared a house in the 4th year with mother, baby and others and once of her first big 'feature' articles was written about the whole thing.

DD is harbouring ambitions to go to RADA and has thus far, shown little interest in going to Oxford! It's a shame, as she barely remembers most of it, as I finished my degree when she was four and we then moved to London.