Tell me all you know about Oxford:

College Search & Selection
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<p>Theres no oxford board (to my knowledge). Does anyone here know:
1.) Where the nexus (if there is one) of Oxford activity on the net is?
2.) The attitude and lifestyle there?
3.) Anything?</p>

<p>The official sites say nothing about the real feel of the school.
I may want to spend junior year there, but i may unnecessarily be compromising a more exotic year in Japan or Spain. Yes, this is nothing i need to worry about right now, but i'm bored, so help me out.
I'm posting this here because Harvard is the phonetic and reputable equivalent, so I thought you were my best shot.</p>

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<p>uhhhh from what I know... (which isn't really all that much)
pubs are the popular hang outs</p>

<p>Oxford definitely isn't London, but there's plenty to do
and if London really is your thing, it's only a 1.5 hr bus ride away</p>

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<p>My aunt lives in Oxford and I visited it last Spring and I thought it was the most beautiful city I have ever been to...and I travel a lot. It was amazing. I felt that the people were really rude, though. The very first thing that anyone said to me when I got there was "What?! Someone is smiling in Oxford?!?!" The women, especially, scowled a whole lot. </p>

<p>The bad weather bit is rubbish, though, it was beautiful in March at a time when my home in Massachusetts still had 2 feet of snow. I loved it. </p>

<p>I don't know if you're a big drinker or anything, but I was able to just walk into pubs and order alcohol without showing proof of age, and I'm a sort of ditzy looking blonde girl who usually never passes for a day over 16. Oxford is a wicked fun city and close enough to London to go there for shows and such. British men are beautiful.</p>

<p>I'm not too attracted to the university, though. I mean, I'd be thrilled to study there, but they seem very uptight and stuffy and the application process is a *****. </p>

<p>The food in England is complete crap, too. Get used to marmite and gentlemen's relish.</p>

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<p>haha! well... in London, I always ate non-English food... I had great Indian, Italian, and Japanese food, plus great cheap lunches from grocery stores like Sainsbury... and fish and chips were always good! dunno about Oxford though.</p>

<p>Definitely though applying to Oxford undergrad from America is really a drawn out and long process...and the deadline is very early. I considered it, but it was just too much for me, and when I tried to contact people to get more info they were on the whole pretty rude. Study abroad there is the best option.</p>

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<p>i heard that the interview process is very rigorous and very biased.</p>