CW: depression, very briefly referenced suicidal ideation I’ve been through periods of intense depression a couple of times in my life, beginning in my mid-teens when I would skip classes at high […]
Antidepressants: a user’s tale
Class of 2020: the fetishization of disadvantage
The desire to portray one’s success, be it academic or cultural, in the meritocracy that so evidently doesn’t exist is becoming increasingly difficult to tolerate. Let’s face it, we live in an […]
FOMO and the Pandemic: the perils of missing out while staying in
2020 has not had a good name; with uni students feeling as though they have just thrown 9k into the incinerator, crackling and lagging zoom voices replacing the clarity of face-to-face diction, […]
Oxfess: Behind the Scenes
This week The Flete had the opportunity to speak to a few of the team of admins from the ‘Oxfess’ page. Since the page’s inception during the winter vacation, it has amassed […]
Class of 2020: privilege in college and how to solve it
Michaelmas 2020 was something of a political awakening for me, or at least a strengthening of previously theoretical beliefs which had never been borne out in practice. I admit, I’ve always been […]
The OxMatch Campus Report 2020
OxMatch attracted enormous success this year, running both the standard OxMatch as well as a RAG x OxMatch collaboration, which helped raise more than £2600 for Rag charities. In total, OxMatch has […]
Christmas Alone
CW: mental health issues In the lead up to the Christmas holidays it becomes inevitable a question will be asked. “What are you doing for Christmas?” When it is being thrown around […]
In Conversation with OxPath
The Flete recently spoke to Chase Koch, History and Politics student at Christ Church and founder of multiple platforms designed for Oxford students. Among them is OxPath, a brand-new access initiative launched […]
God in Fragments
It wasn’t until I’d reached the university stage of my life, when we all find ourselves alone, grasping onto who we think we are for dear life, that I realised how much, […]
Birds i’ the cage: freedom and lockdown
The lockdown does not have to be a restriction to this freedom: it can present an opportunity. How many chances do we have to throw our routines out the window?