Anyone know anyone at Worcester college Oxford?

[KateMuff]

DS has an offer and hasn't seen the college. We are in Oxford today and tried to visit but it's shut to non residents. Residents can take a visitor in. Does anyone know anyone who would do this today? We're a working class northern family and DS is v unsure about going. Even less so after having our heads bitten off by the woman on the gate when we asked if we could see the garden.
Let me know. I'd be v grateful
I know it's v unlikely
Thank you

This is the bit where I desperately hope @JasonDerulo isn't a serial killer cunningly disguised as a nice Worcester undergraduate.

Well, Jason sounded lovely but I might mentioned this possibility to DS and advised him to maintain social distancing and vigilance

But seriously, Jason was incredibly welcoming and seemed as confused as us 😂😂

Oh, this is excellent.

You'd have to be quite an opportunistic serial killer to operate like this, I would think.

What a lovely response- best of luck to your DS

How wonderful!
Oxford will look beautiful in the sunshine today - that’s how it seduced me into applying many moons ago and I never regretted it!

Hope he enjoys it, @KateMuff. Let us know what he thinks!

Aw, how lovely that @JasonDerulo did that! Hope your ds enjoys his look round!

Well this is lovely (unless, you know, the serial killer thing ) Hurrah for Jason

How fabulous. I hope your dd enjoyed the tour, @KateMuff!

This thread reminds me of the time that I had to admit to our DC that I had done what we were meant to advise them never to do and arranged to meet up with someone I'd 'met' on an internet forum (not this one, although she is also on MN, as it happens). Neither of us turned out to be an axe-wielding nut job, no doubt both our respective families were relieved to hear.

What a nice thread
(Apart from grumpy porter)

It is a nice thread. And yes, it would be a fairly arcane type of serial killer who lurked online volunteering to show potential undergraduates around Oxford colleges. (Well, it probably happened in an Inspector Morse novel...)

What a lovely thread. How was your DS's tour @KateMuff?

This is mumsnet at its best with the community pulling together to help out.

I have met up with a couple of MNers in RL (waves at MarchingFrogs) and tend to leave my axe at home!

That's fantastic! Well done @JasonDerulo

absolutely agree @KateMuff that you can't decide unless you've at least had a look. I won't mention the uni that my DS had an offer for that had no interest in any kind of show round (we'd have been happy with an outdoors tour). The uni that made a massive effort to show us round and offer chats to the tutors won his vote.

How lovely that @JasonDerulo saw this and offered.

I too have met axewielding serial killers from here (you know who you are )

We're home in Yorkshire!
@JasonDerulo was totally brilliant and he is now incredibly excited and focused. Also slightly panicky he won't get the grades but the offer is way below his predictions so I'm v hopeful.
Mumsnet really is brilliant sometimes, thanks so much 🤩

This is so lovely. Best of luck to your son!

What a fab thread / short story!

(From a working class girl who made it to Cambridge many moons ago)

Aw, heartwarming.
College porters though. They boil my piss, I don't know how they get away with being so rude in this day and age. It just reinforces the image of Oxbridge being snobby and elitist. I don't know why Colleges allow them to carry on being such a negative first impression to visitors? From time to time I have to go to colleges to visit colleagues or for meetings, and they are appalling to everyone, university staff included.

I'll never listen to 'Talk dirty to me' or any other JD without smiling and remembering this 😂😂😂

How lovely. Glad to hear that your son could look around.

I'm so pleased it worked out!
I don't know why porters are rude to visitors, it's weird. At Merton we have one jobsworth (although he's still quite helpful, just in a grumpy/ rule-sticking kind of way). The rest of them are brilliant though, with students at any rate. The other day I fainted in class and the porter who came for first aid was brilliant, got me some food and water from Hall and even arranged for me to lie down in an empty bedroom nearby until I was well enough to manage the 10 minute walk back to my accommodation.

I just clicked on this out of idle curiosity because DH went to Worcester many many years ago from a state school and I've always had the impression it was a down to earth sort of college.
What a lovely story and good luck to your DS!

What a great thread! very glad @JasonDerulo was able to help out OP. I really hope your ds feels more keen now.

And btw everyone don't assume there are no serial killers in Oxford...I mean, have you read Sebastian Faulks' "Engleby"?

Glad he was excited by it, @KateMuff! Wishing him the best of luck with exams etc.