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Originally Posted by Averett
Sweet pictures! Got quite the crowd for the rowing competition.
And you guys are so cute in your tuxes! Although you all do look quite young  |
Heh...thanks for the comments everyone. Yeah, that picture of us dressed up was taken over a year ago at Matriculation. Oxford has all these archaic traditions such as making all undergraduates dress up in what is known as "sub fusc", which is what we are wearing in the photo (basically, white bowtie, black suit and a gown). Quite amusing really.
The library is a sub-building of the Bodleian library, which is a collection of libraries all over Oxford. In total there are over 9 million items on 176 km of shelves. Heh, and I can go and look at any of them.
The rowing is very popular (stereotypically Oxford, but it is true), and the first boats from each college take it ridiculously seriously. Then you get the guys who are in the University first 8...