Welcome to the St. Hugh's Middle Common Room.

The St. Hugh's Middle Common Room (MCR) is both a lovely room of bottomless cups of tea and wonderfully cozy couches as well as the vibrant graduate student community of St. Hugh's College. Our MCR is one of the largest and most diverse graduate student common rooms in Oxford. Our members include an exciting mix of international and local students, fourth year medics, visiting students, honorary members and a vast range of academic interests that span the University and a wealth of experiences, interests and backgrounds. Our student body of over 250 members maintains a cohesive community around our very active and diverse social term card (see for yourself!), beautiful and accessible gardens, graduate-only Victorian houses on the college site, tennis and basketball courts in our own backyard, and most importantly, free weekly brunches and pizza movie nights!

St. Hugh's provides all students a corner of Oxford to call their own. Though St. Hugh's is one of the larger colleges, in terms of student population and estates, the MCR still maintains a true home atmosphere. At any given time of day, the MCR room hosts Wii Sport competitions, movie nights, Sunday brunches, Food Nights, wine and beer tastings, fudge and coffee evenings, pub quizzes, pre- and post- formal drinks and the random music jam. You will find students in the MCR working on last minute papers, reading newspapers, listening to CDs, browsing our in-house library, catching up on laundry, or just taking a break from the busy Oxford term.

The St. Hugh's community holds an absolute wealth of experiences, accumulated before and during our students' time at Oxford. Come in and just listen to the conversations in the MCR, which range from extended debates on the previous night's Question Time show, stories of early morning rowing outings and summaries of research dissertations. A typical conversation with a Hughsie can quickly go from politics, to sports, to science, to philosophy and then a quick drop into a Facebook melodrama and back to politics again. If you're looking for a college stereotype of St. Hugh's, we would say, truly warm and friendly, wickedly intelligent, wholly interested, socially aware and totally committed to taking advantage of everything Oxford life has to offer.

Besides taking part in our weekly social term card events, there are many other ways to get involved with the MCR, from standing for Committee elections to suggesting, or even organising, your own social event ideas. Students from our MCR have suggested and taken the initiative to coordinate events ranging from operas, musicals, theatre shows, sporting events, paintball, whiskey tastings, open mike nights and supposedly, there is a go-kart race in the works.

If you're already an MCR member, welcome to the new website!

If you're thinking of coming to Oxford as a graduate student, definitely stop by 87 Banbury for a cup of tea, take a browse around our site pages, ask a committee member a question, look for us on Facebook and hopefully we'll see you in Michaelmas 2011!