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It's been almost a year since I graduated, and it's safe to say I have had my run in with the highs and lows of post grad life. In the past year I've moved to a new city, worked three very different jobs, had a whole career and future crisis, spent a lot of time trying to stay in touch with and see all my friends that are now spread over the country, and had to work out silly adult things like council tax and registering at a new GP, all while still having to call my mum to

A picture I took in the museum showing some of the collection cases. As I think I've mentioned in some previous posts, I've been keen on doing sidequests now i'm living in London. My bucket list does of course include the classic museums - the Tate Modern, the V&A, the Natural History Museum, the National Portrait Gallery etc - but it also has some smaller ones I've heard about, one of them being UCL's Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy. I finally got around to

Last week I received my degree results and I'm thrilled to say I'm going to be graduating with a First Class MEarth Sci degree. That's...

Another year down, and the end of 2024 marks two years of Lets Chalk About It being in existence. 2024 has yet again been a year filled...

So you got an Oxford interview but now you're freaking out and madly searching the internet for tips, tricks and what to expect! A photo of the Radcliffe Camera taken in November time. First of all, congrats! Getting an interview is an amazing achievement in itself and you should be proud. Second, the interview process is not designed to be a big scary test, its designed to see if the tutors would enjoy taking you on as one of their students and if you would enjoy being taugh

If there is one thing in life that fuels me it's coffee. Back in 2021, when 18 year-old Liv first arrived in Oxford, I hated the stuff. I...

The past two weeks have been my finals, which is the name for our third year exams here at Oxford, although that is a silly word because...

It's the third week of trinity term here in Oxford and we are deep into the depths of exam season. Libraries are packed, people are stressed, and my laptop home screen says '6 days until exams' in bold letters. Exam season is full on and stressful, but I have also found it to be boring and even a little lonely. With everyone focused on their revision it seems like everyone feels guilty for having some fun and, especially amongst finalists, no one really has time for any maj

So once again I've been a little MIA for a while. Keeping up with the blog along with my university work provides somewhat of a challenge...

Hilary Term (the second term of the year at Oxford) has just begun and I thought I would take you through my week 1. Terms at Oxford last...

Over new year my boyfriend and I flew out to Dubai to spend the last weeks of the vac with my parents (and also in the sun!). The ten...

Looking back at 2023, what a year it has been! Plenty of geology, plenty of Oxford, plenty of time spent with family and friends, and...

Writing this article I’m currently in my 9th hour spent in Inverness airport after a long, long delay. Not a very fitting end to what was...

It's all well and good me writing about my experiences studying the Earth Sciences but as they say, a picture says a thousand words. So...

The University of Oxford has over 100 libraries. I have not come anywhere near having gone in all of them but living the studious (somewhat sad) life that we do, my friends and I delight in trying to visit as many different ones as possible during term time. So far I have only been to about 15 of them so I have a long way to go in the next 2 and a bit years but here are my thoughts and feelings about some of them so far. View of the RadCam from the Bod - taken whilst trying t

When visiting my parents in Dubai over the Christmas holidays we had a family day out at the Museum of Future. Located in a particularly...

Picture taken whilst on a hike at Fossil Rock, Dubai in 2019 Hi everyone and welcome to my first post! Thank you for taking the time to...