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Oxford University alumni group
Any of you here and want to get together?
Ok when I was living in New York we had an Oxford Alumni group that would meet and do things together. It was interesting cuz of the people and the things we did together. We even got a 8-man boat together and rowed a race or two. Any Oxford alumni on this website? Anyone interested in getting together some time in the city for a drink?
Open it up to elite universities and then you might get a group together and it would actually be cool. I graduated from Johns Hopkins and the only get togethers they have is in Berlin. I also graduated from the University of Tennessee and they don't qualify as elite even though they run the ORNL where the atomic bomb was built that got dropped on Japan and currently has the highest powered neutron source in the world for studying molecular structures among other things.
ORNL (DOE) will have the highest powered neutron source - when they sort out cavitation and don't destro the liquid metal target.
Would be interested in a meet up. Despite being light blue scum.
Would be interested in a meet up. Despite being light blue scum.
There was an Aston/Brum meet-up in 2004 but it turned into baltis and beers (i.e. a top night). Doesn't your alumni office organise stuff? Because Aston still does, but our place is tiny tiny tiny.
My impression of alumni stuff is: They try and get cash off you (which I don't have) and it doesn't involve curry (which is just sad...)
QUOTE (rich_mole @ Apr 16 2007, 11:07 pm) 
Despite being light blue scum.
Well, Kentucky is the Big Blue, but I don't know who you are talking about unless perhaps it is Duke.
Drop a note to Munich's Oxford Society. Have fun!
The problem with opening it to elite universities is that Oxford alumni would feel left out...
Tell us where you are having a meet up and we can get Mohnhaupt round to kill the class enemies.
You want some ketchup for that love?
There's an article in today's Guardian which suits.
An Oxbridge education doth not by default a ruling class member make.
There's an article in today's Guardian which suits.
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Work hard, invest wisely, and it could all be yours: weekly trips to Waitrose, sojourns in southern Europe, and a confident approach to the average wine list. Should you wish, you may even wish to firm up your children's life chances by sending them to an expensive school, where they may just be lucky enough mix with the sons and daughters of privilege. But here's the interesting thing: even if being middle class represents modern Britain's social ideal, at the upper end of the class system there still lies one of the most reinforced glass ceilings that humankind has ever managed to build. Here, those self-same middle-class values may well turn into a disadvantage, class will harden into caste - and, faced by a mass of subtle gradations and intricate etiquette, the social elevator will often grind to a halt.
An Oxbridge education doth not by default a ruling class member make.
Certainly; the upper class real poshoes HATE the aspiring middle classes more than they do the working classes.
And just vinegar thanks, to make me even more sour!
And just vinegar thanks, to make me even more sour!
Thanks for the Munich Oxford website tip!
We can certainly open it up to "elite" schools... I think that makes it more interesting so I can learn about other schools too and feel more confident that I went to probably the best one (ok, I'm trying to start the elite school battle! haha).
We should go do something together and get to know each other... ? Where/When ???
And no, we don't have to charge for being a member! We are, after all, smarter than that.. right???
We can certainly open it up to "elite" schools... I think that makes it more interesting so I can learn about other schools too and feel more confident that I went to probably the best one (ok, I'm trying to start the elite school battle! haha).
We should go do something together and get to know each other... ? Where/When ???
And no, we don't have to charge for being a member! We are, after all, smarter than that.. right???
QUOTE (jwadleigh @ Apr 20 2007, 9:21 am)
feel more confident that I went to probably the best one (ok, I'm trying to start the elite school battle! haha).
And no, we don't have to charge for being a member! We are, after all, smarter than that.. right???
And no, we don't have to charge for being a member! We are, after all, smarter than that.. right???
It also boils down to what you studied. If you studied Mathematics, Physics and the like, my hats off to you. If you studied Humanities or Social Sciences...yawn.
Does Oxford Brookes count?
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