Glossary

Noughth Week - 0th Week: This is the week before the first week of your eight week term.

Full term: 1st-8th Week. N.B. In Oxford, the week begins on Sunday.

Bop - Oxford social event, impossible to describe. See it to believe it.

Scout - Your cleaner, who once a week will come into your room and more or less clean it unless you request them not to.

Battels - Your college bill, which you usually have to pay in to the Bursary (in main college, though you can use pigeon post) by Friday 2nd week each term. Many things such as charges for social events and more importantly your Holywell bar tab can go onto Battels.

Pigeon Post - The university runs a Pigeon post system whereby mail is delivered between the Colleges and the Departments by hand a number of times a day. To send mail by Pigeon Post write the name and college or dept of the recipient on the front, and give it to the Porter in the Lodge.

Michaelmas Term - First term of the year (i.e. semester).

Hilary Term - Second term of the year.

Trinity Term - Yes, the third term of the year.

BodCard - University membership card, functions as your student ID and a swipecard to get into your department etc. Essential for having an email account.

Oxford Union Debating Society- Debating Society and university social club, charges for life membership. Lots of fun, honestly. Not to be confused with the Student Union.

OUSU - Oxford University Student's Union. Not to be confused with the Debating Union.

The University Club - Sports and social club free for all graduates, post docs, staff, and their families. See their website to sign up.

Holywell - where we live, generally pronounced 'Holly-well'