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

OTOH even.

Newnham Law - 2003. Cheesy bops and scrummy canteen food!

Caius, Cambridge; matriculated 1987, Law (hahahahahahahaha!)

physics Hertford graduated 1991

And DH is 1 day older than me but was in year above at same college (and have totally outed myself there- what are the odds of that happening to anyone else?)

Ooh, missbeehiving, how interesting! You're not willing to say which subject your DH did, are you? Or any other clues?

Agree about Jasper Griffin.

Good things come out of Balliol, including DH.

I love Jasper Griffin. The first lecture of his I ever went to, he swished down the aisle at the exam schools in his gown and proceeded to compare the Myrmidons to the orcs from LOTR. I was smitten.

I never saw the point of Jasper Griffin. He does, however, have one of the coolest and most Harry Potter-like names in Classics.

Anyone else have a crush on Michael Vickers at the Ashmolean?

Turnip, agree he was an exhibitionist pure simple, but compared to John Carey in my discipline who just read his latest book to us, he was amusing.

I wanted to Horace as part of my Latin paper but was told not to unless I read German. Did that happen to anyone else?

I did Horace despite not (then) knowing any German. I wrote a spectacularly brilliant commentary on a poem the only word of which I recognised was 'cloud', once. Ah. Happy days.

I did Horace without any German. I didn't really get him at the time, and remember Oliver Taplin remarking that you couldn't appreciate Horace until you were over 40, which I've found to be true.

Oh sicut , I obviously was old at 16, I fell in love with Horace then and have never fallen out.

Taplin, yes used to go to hear him too.

Don'tcallmehon - who are you? Am desperate to know, since I also matriculated 1998, Mansfield, English. To be fair, there's a fairly narrow field, given there were only six of us - and as far as I know - only two of us have children. However, I may be wrong!

whistler Taplin was a fantastic tutor and a lovely man - very pro-women. I still have the copy of Greek Tragedy in Action which I bought when I was about 17. I am still in touch with him. Of course when I was an undergraduate I thought he was ancient (he must have been mid-30s). By lovely coincidence, his daughter from his second marriage, who is a few months younger than DS1, is friends at school with the daughter of our old next-door neighbour in London, so we have all met up for lunch a few times.

SPC Oxford, matric 1994 Modern History. Had a bit of a 'meh' time but loved grad courses back in Manchester. Oxford just wasn't for me.

lc, I'm A ;) Are you L? Don't out me ;)

I should have done greats and have always regretted it but thought my Greek wasn't up to it and my stupid school didn't know about the mods b course.

Just rebought Thrasymachus.

Graduated in the 90s, married my college boyfriend.

Exeter college, matriculated in 2005 and graduated, well I haven't yet as the accidently-falling-pregnant threw a small spanner in the works (or a banner in the spam as my mum has been known to say). Have still got a degree though, just never got round to booking in to the ceremony!

Thought so :) Yes, and don't worry, I won't. Am in Oxford this week, visiting Dad. Might take the kids to see college, will give it a wave for you :)

Oxford,married oxford bf on last day of term and sadly divorced later. Life didn't go quite to plan . . .

St Hilda's, English. Don't want to out myself with the year.