Welcome to our family!
We hope you are looking forward to joining us this coming Michaelmas term. The MCR is your second family in Oxford, led by a student committee that takes care of your welfare and organizes various events for graduates.
Consider this section an interactive handbook for your first few weeks at St Anne’s and Oxford more generally. The MCR website itself also contains lots of useful information about college & MCR life for your time at Oxford. Don’t forget to check out the College’s official Freshers website for information regarding registration and induction.
More information for freshers – compiled by your MCR committee!
- Freshers’ Week Schedule
- Fresher’s Checklist (consult this to-do list if you’re not sure where to start)
- St Anne’s interactive map (including Freshers’ Week locations)
- Oxford Living Guide (transportation, neighborhoods, healthcare, banking, etc.,)
- Oxford Glossary & Freshers’ FAQs
Fresher’s Week 2024 Schedule
Below is the provisional Fresher’s Week (0) schedule and some useful information on the second page. We have copies available upon your arrival at Anne’s and in the MCR.
As the event approaches, check your emails and our WhatsApp groups for the latest & information and any questions. Do fill out the RSVP form below the schedule for major events so we can get numbers & dietaries.
Note that the College Induction Day (Wednesday), and Equalities & Diversity briefings are mandatory. This schedule only includes St Anne’s MCR and select College events and may not include events by your department & the wider University – you should consult those separately as you plan out Week 0 (see the University’s Freshers’ timetable here)
Week 1 events (and onwards)
- For more MCR events during the term, check out our term card!
- Graduate Freshers’ Formal Hall will take place on the evening of Wed, 16 October (Week 1), Drinks from 7:30pm, with dinner at 8:00pm – no guest are allowed. You will be generally placed with your students in your course and fellows from your department. Please book for the dinner here.
- Matriculation Ceremony (compulsory) & Class Photos on Sat, 19 October (Week 1). You’ll register attendance in the foyer of the Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre (MOLT) at St Anne’s on Saturday, 19 October, between 12:00 noon and 12.45pm. Details (from the College Freshers Website) are below.
Matriculation Ceremony & Class Photos Details
MATRICULATION CEREMONY
SATURDAY 19 OCTOBER 2024
(not for Visiting Students or students who have already matriculated at Oxford)
Matriculation is the ceremony that marks your formal admission to the University. It is a celebratory event, where you will get to take part in one of the most famous Oxford traditions. Attendance is compulsory*. If you are unable to matriculate on Saturday 19 October for reasons of religion or belief, please speak to the Academic Registrar.
* A number of part-time graduate courses have arranged for their students to matriculate in absence; please check here to see if this applies to your course. Where an arrangement to matriculate in absence has been made, you are not able to also matriculate in person.
Leave to matriculate at a later date in the term is only given in exceptional circumstances; please make certain you do not make other arrangements for this day. Failure to matriculate at a ceremony in the term following that in which you started will forfeit the fees for the term in which you came up and that term will not be counted towards the course.
Please go to the foyer of the Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre (MOLT) on Saturday 19 October between 12:00 noon and 12.45pm to give in your name. You do not have to sign anything but we must know that you are present. There will be two queues, one for undergraduates and one for postgraduates.
You will then be directed to the Dining Hall to receive instructions from the Dean of Degrees, and you will process to the Sheldonian Theatre in Broad Street for the ceremony. The ceremony should be finished by about 2:30. Please note that no visitors are allowed in the Sheldonian.
The required dress for matriculation is known as sub fusc. You should wear a gown, a mortar board or soft-cap, and your preferred items from the following list:
1. Dark suit with dark socks, or dark skirt with black tights or stockings, or dark trousers with dark socks
2. Dark coat if required
3. Black shoes!!!
4. Plain white collared shirt or blouse
5. White bow tie, black bow tie, black full-length tie, or black ribbon.
Candidates serving in H.M. Forces are permitted to wear uniform together with a gown.
You can buy new caps/gowns/white bow ties/black ribbon from:
Shepherd & Woodward Ltd, 109-113 High Street;
Castell & Son Ltd, 13 Broad Street;
You will find that charity shops around Oxford will have supplies of second hand gowns (ask Freshers’ helpers for tips about where to go) and the JCR also have a small supply of undergraduate commoners gowns donated by those recently graduated.
Students from previous Universities can wear the gown and hood of that Institution. Once they have matriculated, they will wear the Oxford gown of their current status.
A College year group photo will be taken at 2:45pm on the Quad to commemorate the occasion. Visiting Students, and those who have previously matriculated are welcome to join the photo.
Portrait photographers will be available after the group photograph.
Interactive College Map
Below is a live map of St Anne’s College, tailored for graduates – all Freshers’ Week locations will be on here. Feel free to zoom, search, and click on areas/places for more information.