PG Freshers Timetable
*All events compulsory unless otherwise indicated
-1st Week
| Time | Type of Event | Event | Location |
| 15:30-16:30 | Optional | MCR Early Bird (Informal) College Tour | Meet in 4th Quad |
| 19:00 onwards | Optional | MCR Early Bird Dinner – please sign up by 27th September! | Meet in 4th Quad |
| Time | Type of Event | Event | Location |
| 16:00-17:00 | Optional | MCR Early Bird Coffee & Cake | MCR |
| 20:00 onwards | Optional | MCR Early Bird Pub Trip – please sign up by 27th September! | Meet in 1st Quad |
| Time | Type of Event | Event | Location |
| All Day | Last arrival day for new graduates. Please sign in and collect key fob or key card from Lodge if you haven’t arrived earlier in the week. | Lodge | |
| 15:00-16:00 | Optional | Drop-in ‘meet the MCR’ event. Some of our lovely committee members and volunteers will be in the Café in the Cheng Building in advance of the welcome tea in case you’d like to say hello or have any questions for us! | Cheng Building Café |
| 16:00-17:00 | Optional | Welcome Tea | Cheng Building Café |
| 18:00-21:00 | Optional | MCR Speed-friending pizza night Get to know your fellow college members! This event has been a fan favourite in years gone by. Free pizza and a speed-friending event will be provided to help you fast track that small-talk stage. BYOB if desired |
Cheng Building Café |
| Time | Type of Event | Event | Location |
| 11:00-13:00 | Optional | MCR - Guided Tour of Oxford University. Participation is free but booking is required as we have limited spaces. | Meet at Lodge |
| 11:00 and 14:00 | Optional | MCR Tours of the College We will be giving two additional tours of the College grounds with more practical advice about where to find everything you need at Jesus! Meet by the MCR (staircase XI) |
Meet by MCR |
| 14:00-16:00 | Optional | MCR - Guided Tour of Oxford University. Participation is free but booking is required as we have limited spaces. | Meet at Lodge |
| 18:00 onwards | Optional | MCR Parenting Dinner See President’s welcome letter for details about this scheme! |
Close to college (ideally) |
0th Week
| Time | Type of Event | Event | Location |
| 11:30 onwards | Optional | MCR Natural History Museum Trip We’ll take a stroll to the Natural History Museum where you’re free to split up and wander round before we walk back, explore as a group or just take pew in the café with one of the coolest settings in Oxford. |
Meet at the Lodge |
| Time | Type of Event | Event | Location |
| All day until 17:00 | Department/Faculty inductions (details will be given to you separately and directly by your Departments) | ||
| 16:30 | Optional | MCR Walkabout with ice cream at G&Ds! | Meet at MCR |
| 20:30 onwards | Optional | MCR Pub Crawl/ “Ou est le Poulet?” Join us for a unique evening game where some of our committee members will be hidden, dressed as chickens, in one of the nearby pubs! Your job is to hunt through the pubs, having a drink (alcoholic or otherwise) in every pub you fail to find us in. The team who find us first will receive a round of free drinks! |
Meet at the Lodge |
| Time | Type of Event | Event | Location |
| All day until 17:00 | Department/Faculty inductions (details will be given to you separately and directly by your Departments) | ||
| 11:00 | Optional | MCR E&D/Welfare Coffee Morning Meet our Welfare Rep and President to grab a coffee (or other hot drink of choice) and take a walk around University Parks! A lovely break from sitting down having inductions we hope |
Meet at the lodge |
| 22:00-02:00 | Optional | MCR - A night out’ at the Varsity Club! Join us at the Varsity Club for our big Freshers bash! You’ll all receive two tokens for a selection of alcoholic or non-alcoholic drinks, and you’ll be able to purchase more at the bar as you please. There will be a DJ and the dress code is smart, but not black tie, just to provide you all with an opportunity to dress up a bit. There will be a limit on numbers so please sign up here to get your name on the guest list if you’d like to attend! |
Meet at the Lodge to walk over or head to TVC yourselves! |
| Time | Type of Event | Event | Location |
| 09:15-10:00 | Welcome Ceremony: Welcome from the Principal, Academic Director, Director of Accommodation, Catering & Conferences, Estates Bursar, Development Director, Chaplain, Dean and Junior Deans. Smart dress required, but not academic gowns or formal jackets. Please make your way to Hub by 9.15am to ensure that you are seated for the ceremony which starts promptly at 9.30am. | Cheng Digital Hub | |
| 10:15-11:00 | College Practicalities induction with College staff and MCR President. | Cheng Digital Hub | |
| 13:00-15:00 | Optional | MCR - College Freshers’ Fair Come along to the Cheng Café in our new Quad to look around at what’s on offer in and around Jesus College! While you’ll find University-wide societies at the University Freshers’ Fair, this College one will feature some of our internal clubs, societies, and sports teams, as well as some external exhibitors who would love to tell you what they’re all about. Come along at any point over. |
Cheng Building Café |
| Entry 14:00-15:00 | Optional | Oxford SU Freshers' Fair | Exam Schools |
| 17:00-18:00 | Optional | MCR Coffee and Cake Come for an early taste of our afternoon Coffee and Cake in the MCR. A selection of our lovely committee members and Freshers’ Week Angels will be around to chat or answer any questions you have after all the information so far this week! |
MCR |
| TBC | Optional | MCR Jazz Night! Details tbc! Keep an eye out for updates to the timetable to sign up for this. |
Meet at the lodge |
| Time | Type of Event | Event | Location |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Optional | Joint JCR-MCR Chaplain’s Breakfast : All welcome to drop in: a chance to meet other students involved in the chapel community, of all faiths and none, and find out more about what the Chaplain does. Pastries, juice, tea and coffee. | Cheng Building Café |
| 11:30 | Optional | MCR Botanical Gardens Trip Join us on a trip to Oxford’s well-renowned Botanical Gardens. Entry is free with your Bod card. Do watch out for updates to this event nearer the time, if the UK decides to produce one of it’s quintessential bouts of bad weather we will adapt! |
Meet at the Lodge |
| 13:00-17:00 | Department/Faculty inductions (details will be given to you separately and directly by your Departments) | ||
| 18:30-20:00 | Optional | Jesus College Choir – initial rehearsal. The choir is non-auditioning but richly resourced and rewarding. It performs weekly during term. All are welcome to give it a try. | Chapel |
| 20:00-Onwards | Optional | MCR Pottery Night Join us in the MCR for a really fun night of crafting and getting to know your peers! Come and paint some mugs, plates or bowls and we will return them to you fully fired and useable in just a few weeks. Returning Students welcome at this event. |
MCR |
| Time | Type of Event | Event | Location |
| All Day | Place your BACS (bank) form in the Battels Box in the Lodge, if you did not hand it in during the induction session | Lodge | |
| 9:00-13:00 | Department/Faculty inductions (details will be given to you separately and directly by your Departments) | ||
| 13:30-15:00 |
Consent Workshop hosted by the Welfare Officer Kirren Mahmood. |
Cheng Digital Hub/Ship Street (tbc) | |
| 15:30-17:00 | Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Training hosted by the Welfare Officer Kirren Mahmood. | Cheng Digital Hub/Ship Street (tbc) | |
| 17:00-18:30 | Optional | MCR Research Lightning Talks See the breadth and depth of research going on in the Jesus MCR as current members present lightning talks (5 mins) on their research. |
Cheng Building Café |
| 20:00-23:00 | Optional | MCR Wine and Cheese Our Wine and Cheese nights are a firm favourite amongst the MCR, always drawing a large crowd to our free food and refreshments. To give freshers an introduction to this popular event and to give you a chance to discuss the research presented earlier, this particular edition of W&C will be exclusively for freshers and presenters. No sign up required. Returning Students welcome at this event. |
MCR |
| Time | Type of Event | Event | Location |
| All Day | Optional | “Student Essential Fair” at the Oxford Union Pop along to the Union around the corner in St Michael’s Street for a chance to browse and purchase décor to spruce up your new room/flat/house. Posters, plants, and others for sale. |
Oxford Union |
| 18:00 onwards | Optional | Cheng and Ship Street Potluck With Hall closed again, this would be a perfect opportunity to get to know your corridor/staircase better. Get together with your kitchen group and either bring or cook a dish which you will all then share. Get creative!
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Cheng Building and Ship Street kitchens |
| For those not living in central College accommodation: we’re keen to get those who live out or off-site involved. If you’d like to be assigned to a kitchen group, either randomly or to a group with someone you’ve made friends with already, please let us know by completing the form here. |
1 Week
| Time | Type of Event | Event | Location |
| All Day | Optional | “Student Essential Fair” at the Oxford Union Pop along to the Union around the corner in St Michael’s Street for a chance to browse and purchase décor to spruce up your new room/flat/house. Posters, plants, and others for sale |
Oxford Union |
| All Day Morning: Erg Tasters Lunch: BBQ Afternoon: Boat Tasters |
Optional | MCR - Rowing Taster Session Chat to our lovely rowing team at the Freshers’ Fair for more details! There will be lots of taster sessions and a big barbecue, anyone and everyone welcome! Any MCR members interested in rowing please fill out the form here and one of the lovely MCR rowers will be in touch to let you know about taster sessions and more. |
Jesus College Boat House |
| 17:30 | Optional | Freshers’ Evensong: The first performance given by this year's College Choir. | Chapel |
| Time | Type of Event | Event | Location |
| 18:30-20:00 | Optional | GP drop-in session. You are invited to meet your College Doctors and Team. Surnames A -L from 18:30 and M-Z from 19:15 |
Northgate Health Centre |
| Time | Type of Event | Event | Location |
| 11:00 or 14:00 | Optional | Induction to the College Library with the College Librarian Owen McKnight | Meet at the ground floor entrance to the library staircase 17 |
| 18:30-19:00 | Freshers' Drinks | Cheng Ground Floor or location chosen by your College Tutor. See list in Lodge. | |
| 19:00-21:00 | Freshers' Dinner. RSVP by noon Friday 27 September. | Hall | |
| 21:00-23:00 | Optional | MCR Afters (Second Desserts) Join us in the MCR for port and extra desserts after the Freshers’ Dinner. |
MCR |
| Time | Type of Event | Event | Location |
| 08:00-08:30 & 09:00-09:30 | Optional | Individual Matriculation photos with Gillman & Soame photographers. | 1st and 2nd Quad,* Chapel / Meeting Rooms *weather dependent |
| 08:30 | Compulsory Matriculation group photograph with Gillman & Soame photographers. To be taken promptly at 08:45, so must assemble at 08:30. | 2nd Quad | |
| 09:30 | Procession led by Dean of Degrees to Sheldonian Theatre. | 1st Quad | |
| 10:00 | Matriculation Ceremony. You are free to leave after the ceremony | Sheldonian Theatre |
5th Week
| Time | Type of Event | Event | Location |
| 18:15-19:00 | Optional | International drinks: all welcome. The Principal, Academic Director, International Fellows, and Chaplain invite you to drinks and nibbles. A chance to see what you are making of Jesus College, Oxford. Ask any questions which have occurred to you. Please complete the online form to RSVP by noon on 1st November. |
Cheng Building Cafe |
