Day 4

After more tutorials and independent study to stretch the students, a trip to the Ashmolean was in order. The Ashmolean museum is the world's first university museum, and home to a wide variety of art and archaeological treasures.

Students were sent on a mission to find the collection of rings that inspired the One Ring from Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Other highlights of the collections included the Kish Tablet, thought to be the oldest written document, drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo and Raphael and the death mask of Oliver Cromwell.

After a lovely meal at Aziz, students came back to the accommodation for their first evening seminar. Seminar options included Life as a Junior Doctor, Philosophy and Ethics, Creative Writing, Environmental Studies and Current Affairs.

Derrick, Radu, Charles, Gordon, Tom and Helena had an Environmental studies seminar from a tutor who studies climate change from an international relations perspective.  Students were encouraged to consider the wide implications and effects changes to one aspect of the environment may have, and what we consider "natural" or unmodified in an environmental context.

Students enjoying a visit to the Ashmolean