(machines hum) (liquid sloshes)
- I'm just making a mess today.
(sighs and vibrates lips)
Hey guys, I'm Caitlin, I'm a fourth year
Chemistry student at Oxford.
I'm originally from Auckland, New Zealand,
and I'm studying at Pembroke College.
(glass rattles)
Chemistry here, it's a four year degree.
The first three years you'll be doing your undergraduate,
you'll have your typical tutorials
and your lectures and all that stuff.
And then in your fourth year
you move on to your research project,
so you're in the lab Monday to Friday,
doing your work,
and you get to choose this which is actually quite nice.
(liquid pours) (machines hum)
So I don't actually live in college anymore,
I'm gonna go into college today for lunch.
(footsteps squish)
- Sophie and I are in college,
(hands clap) trying to make
some friends with some Freshers'.
- [Sophie] Well actually, I'm trying to study,
because at Oxford they set you essays at Zero Week.
Don't come to Oxford, kids (laughs).
- It's North Week, and we're dead already.
(noisy chatter)
- [Caitlyn] Last year, I lived in this quad here,
and this is called Old Quad.
And I was in a room just up here
and these rooms are actually from the 1600s,
so this is one of the oldest parts of college.
- So it's Tuesday, Freshers' Week, (toast crunches)
I am here at home, getting ready to go to the lab.
(knife bumps plastic)
(sighs) because why go to Freshers' Week,
when you can go to the lab and have more fun?
(plastic jar knocks table)
So, I have a good meeting this morning,
at 08:30 (toast crunches)
and I will be getting there now.
(plastic jar scrapes on table)
(sighs)
I'm like here just sitting around wondering why
this glassware's so dirty, but to be honest,
I'm probably the one who didn't clean it,
so (smacks lips)
(sighs) (mock retches)
(machines hum)
(sighs and groans)
(wind blows)
So, I've come in today to maybe do some JCR stuff,
and meet some Freshers'.
(excited and noisy chatter)
(noisy chatter)
- [Caitlyn] Like this old lady.
(man laughs)
(distorted audio muffles chatter)
(someone laughs)
(footsteps squish)
Hi guys, it's 08:00a.m. and I am at training
before I head to the lab.
(video goes silent)
- How's training goin'?
- It's okay.
Apparently you got two broken toes and a broken finger.
- I meant my training. (both laugh)
(upbeat music)
Barry and I have just finished training.
How was it Barry?
- Good, as always.
Still getting better everyday.
As always it's very, very easy to train you.
- I've just finished practice,
and now I am going to head to college for some breakfast.
I should be in the lab,
but I'm hungry so I want some food first.
(busy chatter) (someone laughs)
One thing I do love about college,
is all the gardens.
(wind blows) It's so pretty,
you just come in and there are just,
pretty flower pots everywhere.
(video goes silent)
I'm at Throws at the moment.
It's Saturday morning and I come here
like once or twice a week.
It's outside of Oxford which is a bit of a pain.
It's Saturday night and we're heading to a house party
because we have nothing else to do right now.
- Traffic, traffic, traffic.
(distant chatter)
(woman giggles)
- Wow.
- Tired.
I'm gonna go home and go to sleep.
- [Caitlyn] What are you doing tomorrow?
- I'm running a half marathon. (giggles)
- [Caitlyn] Are you excited?
- Half excited, half terrified,
(giggles) to be honest.
(footsteps crunch) (pondering sigh)
- [Caitlyn] I've come down this morning to do some rowing.
I'm in my fourth year
and I've never actually rowed for college.
I'm actually still a novice,
so I'm only involved with novice stuff this term,
because we kinda have a lot of free time.
(wind blows)
Lena and I have just finished rowing.
(crunching footsteps) - Right now,
we can only do an Erg,
so do the training on the rowing machine,
because the river levels are too high.
But we really hope that it goes down again
because we wanna prepare for a regatta,
in seventh week with all of the novices.
- Which is me.
- Which is Caitlyn. - I'm doing
the novice regatta.
- And lots of other--
- Real novices. - People who just came
to Oxford, (Caitlyn laughs)
and who are now learning to row.
And who are gonna compete against each other,
in seventh week.
- [Caitlyn] I always thought of like
(footsteps drown out rest of sentence)
So that was my Freshers' week.
Hope you guys enjoyed all the really
exciting stuff that I did during that week,
and I look forward to seeing you next time.
(machines hum) Scintillating.