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"Georgetown, Cambridge, Oxford, and Yale, and all she does with that background is write cynical cash-grab fantasyslop."
"For example, Babel is supposed to be this "dark academia" narrative set at Oxford University exploring the evils of British imperialism... The premise of Babel is a group of Black/Chinese/Indian friends at Oxford working to destroy the British Empire from within."
"i am 31 and i now have a life-ruining kid of debt. i don't know if i will ever be able to get a mortgage. i have a fucking oxford data analysis phd but i won't ever be able to get a finance job with that history."
"Crumbley the Oxford kid is textbook. Median home price on his block is $500k. The media paints the parents as degenerate MAGA white trash (and they are!) but the dad made around $200K for Quicken Loans and the mom's a wino who worked a pretend-job at a horse stables for rich folks."
"Even despite being a Oxford graduate and her accomplishments she never felt good enough, nor did her status as a woman in the 1950s ever do her any favours."
"While we crunch he asks me questions about my boyfriends career as they both study/ied computer science and how he and I are going on a trip to Oxford."
"we're going on a weekend trip to Oxford soon literally taking the closet case to the birthplace of Narnia and I got all gloomy about it."
"It's the least genuinely Mississippi-ish town in Mississippi, and despite Larry Brown having lived there it's nothing more than an uninteresting and generic college town."
"One of the authorities quoted was Andrew Przybylski, a professor of human behaviour and technology at Oxford."
"i guess this phenomenon just makes me think back to formal education during the edwardian era lol, wherein rich aristocratic british boys would be sent to cambridge or oxford to study platonic dialogues and rousseau"
"i was not raised in a house where my Asian parents forced me slave away 24 hours a day just so I had a chance of getting into Oxford, but I became convinced that this was my reality for a good while."
"I've met scholars with degrees from Harvard and Oxford who can't find shit all."
"Carrying a Teddy bear around to your lectures at Oxford is cooked"
"Carrying a Teddy bear around to your lectures at Oxford is cooked"