A visit to the Ashmolean museum followed students' tutorials today. The Ashmolean museum is the world's first university museum. 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 pizza and salad for dinner it was time for students' seminars of choice which included Life as a Junior Doctor, Environmental Studies, Current Affairs, Ethics and Philosophy and Creative Writing. Claire and Harrie enjoyed their model UN exercise in Current Affairs, where they represented Brazil and USA. Other countries involved inluded Haiti, Iran, Morroco and Russia. Liz was looking forward to the Environmental Studies seminar, which explored the role of emotion and facts in climate change and other enviromental issues.
We were excited to have a new student, Sneha joining us today. Sneha is studying English and Economics. She will be studying at a UK university next year; this summer school will be a great introduction to studying at a UK university. Although it's a shame she couldn't join us from the start of the summer school, she will still have over three weeks to make the most of her time here.
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