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Brasenose is a warm, welcoming community, and undisputedly the happiest college in Oxford. However, the Oxford lifestyle can be stressful and intense at times. It wouldn’t be sustainable if we didn’t take the time to relax and enjoy ourselves.

In November 2015, Brasenose’s Pater Society held its first meeting of the academic year, playing host to a fascinating talk from successful commercial author Chris Manby.

Over the last few terms I have been working on my final year research project as part of my degree in Experimental Psychology. Finally, after having spent my first two years reading about the exciting research that goes on in the department, I was going to be able to become an active part of that research myself.

Students at Oxford are selected from the applicant field purely on academic merit, but once they are here there is the entirely optional opportunity to play sport, even to a very high standard. Milo Smith (3rd Year Chemist) tells us all about his experience racing for Oxford University, against Cambridge, in the annual Varsity Ski trip.

Just before the Christmas vacation, Brasenose tutor Dr Liv Robinson presented a production of the medieval morality-play Everyman at the University Church.

What was that, Oxmas? That’s right, folks, “Oxmas” is Oxford’s very own Christmas celebration. It takes place a month before Christmas, on the 25^th Novermber, and it’s basically Christmas come early.

Arriving at College on the first day of Fresher’s week has the potential to be a daunting and nerve wracking experience.

As a first year historian at Oxford, I studied a wide variety of papers, from the Norman Conquest to the French Revolution, but never found my niche.

This Term’s Christmas Blurbs highlighted Neuroscience - a field that is strongly represented in Brasenose’s research community.

Three Brasenose College tutors have won Oxford University awards.

At the beginning of the summer term, after second year exams, medics swapped pens for pipettes as we began research projects in labs across Oxford.

Over the summer renovation work was completed on the Muniment Room and Treasury, at the top of Old Quad Tower.

For 12 days this summer I was in Morocco in a rural village at the foothills of the Atlas mountains interviewing local people, watching goats climb trees and eating way too much couscous.

Undergraduate First Years officially became part the Brasenose community at the beginning of October when they came up to Oxford to experience Freshers’ Week.

This Friday sees the return of the Platnauer Concert series at Brasenose College, with virtuoso flautist Claire Wickes performing with pianist Nigel Clayton.

Back in June I was fortunate enough to be involved as a student helper in The Brasenose College Study Day for English Literature, Languages and Classics.

The three month long Oxford summer always seems a dauntingly long time, and the search for something productive to do is one with which I’ve often struggled.

Brasenose College Economics tutor, Dr Ferdinand Rauch, has co-authored a paper which suggests that Tube strikes could actually have long-term benefits for some commuters.