Oxbridge Academic Programs - The Cambridge Tradition
Our extracurricular program maintains a healthy balance between study and leisure time that allows students to relax and unwind. To that end, the Activities Directors organize a full daily program of elective social events and sports. These typically include dances, quiz nights, talent shows, and poetry readings, as well as many sports and activities.
Students may choose to participate in structured activities or take advantage of the hundreds of other opportunities each city provides. Our sports program includes aerobics, yoga, fitness classes, and English sports, such as cricket, lawn tennis, soccer, and touch rugby, as well as opportunities to play softball, basketball, Ultimate Frisbee, touch football, or to go jogging.
In Oxford, one might run a lap on the track where Roger Bannister broke the four-minute-mile barrier in 1954. In Cambridge, one might visit Trinity College’s Great Court, a lap of which was run by Olympians Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell in the classic English film, Chariots of Fire. Other pursuits include playing croquet, chess and board game tournaments, punting on the Cam, Cherwell, or Thames Rivers, staff-led country rambles, and walks to local villages and nearby historic sites.
Many students use their free time to pursue individual interests. On a given day, one might find our students browsing in an antiquarian bookshop, visiting an exhibition in the Fitzwilliam or Ashmolean Museums, perusing the latest British fashions in the local mall, hearing evensong in King’s College Chapel or Christ Church Cathedral, or simply watching the world go by in the local streets. There is plenty of time for fun, relaxation, sightseeing, and socializing with new friends.
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