u/tryinottopanic

Hi everyone! I was wondering if there's anyone in this sub at Christ Church college who might be able to give any examples of college dining menus? I read online that they are typically posted on a physical bulletin and people take pictures of them.

Specifically, I am a new student and I'm vegetarian with some additional restrictions, and one issue I've encountered previously in the UK is the use of terms like 'mixed vegetable' or 'veggies' on menus. As someone who eats many vegetables but can't eat mushrooms, courgette, or aubergine, I find these terms pretty useless for figuring out whether I can eat something, so I'm wondering if the college dining menus tend to be more specific, or if this might be something worth reaching out to the dining staff about before I arrive.

Thank you!

I am now moving to a place where I won’t have a car and doesn’t have great public transit for the first time. It still has limited busses, but with limited hours. I am in my early 20s and have dysautonomia and EDS, which make walking long distances difficult and biking dangerous. It also means I am very sensitive to temperature, so walking when it is too hot or cold really worries me. Has anyone been in a similar situation and if so, how did you handle it? I really don’t feel like I can rely on the limited bus system from the standpoint of ever having a social life and wanting to get home after it ends.

Edit: to clarify to everyone-- I am not in the US. Many parts of the world are not very car-friendly and are designed to be incredibly 'walkable'. But that can be a challenge for some. And as a student, I do not have the option to live somewhere else––I need to be near the university.

Hi everyone–– I'm around B1/B2 level of french, and I want to find a flashcard program to just quickly study vocabulary with minimal friction. Anki requires that you go through many menus and fill out a ton of information to add 1 new card–– I'm looking more for something that maybe has some pre-existing vocabulary, and you can choose what you want to study or not study and also add your own terms fairly easily, so that when you open the app it's just Learn → Review → Done, not: Create deck → Choose deck → Add cards → Organize tags → Merge decks → Study, if that makes sense. I was thinking of trying Reword, but I can't figure out if it actually has this type of system, or if anyone knows of something that does?

Basically, my ideal app/website would have these characteristics:

• Built-in master dictionary
• Search in French or English
• Click a button to add a word to your queue
• Option to add your own cards as well
• Only one master SRS queue
• Type answers (not multiple choice)
• No AI making up definitions
• No managing dozens of decks

Any ideas? Even if something doesn't quite fit all the suggestions. Also, I am using immersion as another way to learn–– so please avoid comments saying 'just watch French TV'. The idea here is about really easy learning intervals, if you just have 2 minutes in a crowded room.

Hi everyone! I’ve been trying to learn Japanese for about a year now, but after 1 intro class I’ve had to switch to fully self studying. I’ve been using wani kani, and I’ve tried anki and renshuu and working through Genki and Minna textbooks, but I’m just having a hard time keeping up with it. I think I need to reduce down to just a few tools. I like textbooks because they actually teach grammar as well as vocab— I know a lot of people like renshuu for this as well but I haven’t quite figured out how that works— I seem to just wind up with so many different mastery schedules and I’d prefer to get it down to just maybe one for vocab one for grammar if that’s realistic. Anyways, happy for any advice!

Hello,

I'm an incoming student at Oxford and I'm wondering if anyone knows of long-term parking options? I have a medical condition and can't rely on cycling the way I know many students do. My past experiences with university accommodations channels indicate that it would take many months to figure it out that way, so if anyone knows of a place where you can keep a car long term, even if it's on the expensive side, please let me know.