if you'd like to know what it's like to go to oxford,

do listen to this, the annual isaiah berlin lecture at st antony's college, podcast on itunes u.

just finished listening and oh oh oh the nostalgia... i laughed so hard in the first 5 minutes... the posh accents, the name dropping, allusions to colleges and college suppers, quotes in latin, personal relationships to intellectual powerhouses dropped in anecdotes, insanely diffused semantic discussions.

oh oxford! how bizarre and unique you are! such a dying, removed world it seems. and yet! how impatient i am to go back. i mean look:

this is where i cycled daily:

this is where i could have dinner with friends on an average evening:

under this dome is where i studied:

and this cape-like thing is what i wore on a regular basis to dinners and exams:

I MEAN REALLY.