Wednesday again began with tutorials and quiet study. Excitingly for the engineers, today’s tutorial involved using matchsticks and copious amounts of glue to attempt to make a bridge that would support the weight of an 80kg man!
After some quiet study time in the afternoon, we had a lateral thinking workshop with Sophie to try and encourage us to think (and work) in a more exciting and original way. This resulted in heated debate as to how we would redesign the human body, knowing its flaws, in order to improve it, and also evaluating the position (advocated largely by male students) that marriage should be a five-year renewable contract.Once the lateral thinking session had finished, we headed over to Oxford’s historic Port Meadow to enjoy some traditional British fish and chips - the food that Din had most been looking forward to for the whole two weeks! We managed to find a beautiful cow-and-horse-free spot to sit and eat in the Meadow, which dates back to the time of King Alfred the Great.
After dinner, we headed home. Some of us chose to play football (again...), whilst others relaxed by watching Oxford alumnus, Hugh Grant, in action in Notting Hill.
Next up: only two days to go, but a trip to the UK’s capital city of London!
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