First day back in Oxford
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- čas přidán 17. 01. 2024
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Frequently Asked Questions:
😇 How old are you? 23
📝 What are you studying? I am set to start my MA in English Literature at Oxford this autumn.
📚What are your favourite books? • 200 book recommendatio...
📚 Do you have a book club? Yes! You can join it here for free: fable.co/club/reading-with-th...
📝 Have you written a book? My life goal is to be a published author and make a living from writing and I am using this year to gain experience, build up a portfolio and work on a book with my agent. I have just finished the final draft of that book, as you can see in this video. I did self-publish a book about bullying when I was seventeen which is available on Amazon (amzn.to/3mdJKLm), but I'm slightly embarrassed by it now!
🎃 Do you have merch? I don't have merch in the traditional sense (I can't imagine selling something with my face or name on haha!), but I do have a stationery company where I sell planners for students. These are all designed with students in mind and follow models which I've used when planning my studying. Our products are printed in pastel colours on recycled paper: bit.ly/3wgsR85
🍵 What's your favourite tea? That's a REALLY hard one, but I think I'd have to say the B&B Chocolate Digestive Tea: bird-and-blend-tea-co.sjv.io/youwilllovethisone (affiliate link)
I’m more of a silent watcher but I just have to say that your videos always bring me so much peace and calmness, but always leave me feeling motivated, creative and in a general productive mood! Hope the term is treating you well 🥰
oh Issie - this is so lovely! Thank you for taking the time to write this x
The fact you got into a library that was empty is a dream! Every time I go to a library it is so slammed and I was only able to find a great seat once.
Florescent lights don't project a steady stream of light, camera catches the phenomenon because all recording devices still don't record every frame of real time, it only takes certain "pictures" or frames per second. You'll see this in old footage of older computer monitors running acting like florescent lights.
To get around this problem you have to match your frame rate with the frequency of the lights you are in. You need to shoot at frame rates that are divisible by the number of light pulses. So, in a 60 Hz AC area, you'll need to shoot at 30, 60 or 120 fps.
I love your explanation of this phenomenon. I remember learning about flicker and what is visible to the brain and human eye versus how a camera works. Perfect explanation.
No way! I just thought how I'd love a new vlog from you but then, - you're busy, you just uploaded 2 vids not long ago - and BANG, there you are!! 😂 Thank you, Ruby! You're truly amazing and can honestly call yourself the queen of productivity! I don't know how you do it, but rest assured, you're so appreciated! ❤
SAME!!!!
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of my favourites - definitely read the Tolkien Translation it is a work of art itself! I have studied it twice 20 years apart (once during my undergraduate degree once when I went back to uni to do 1 paper on Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and his medieval literature influences (like Sir Gawain and Beowulf).
Ahh thank you! I actually just got back from a lecture on Tolkien (the influence of the medieval and old English texts on Tolkien is just incredible!). It’s so funny you should say this now ! X
Well done on the sponsorship from Wild! I find your videos so relaxing and lovely to watch!
It’s honestly the coolest sponsorship 🙈 I love them so much! And thank you so much katy!
I love the library clips, and I'm so envious of your library access. I'm in rural Australia, and the nearest academic library is a long drive away. Also, Wild has an Australian store, and your discount code worked there. So good to have the Oxford vlogs back.
It is a heron - good eye. The ponytale-looking feathers hanging down are a giveaway on many different herons. I think you have a heron there called a Grey. Our main one is massive and called the Great Blue.
Try and hang out to watch one take flight if you can. It’s amazing.
Ruby, have you yet gone for a walk on the Thames River footpath (in the direction of London)? There are some magnificent hand-operated wooden locks there. If you ask the lock master, they will let you operate the lock yourself. It is a fabulous experience, and also in summertime there are wild blackberries as well as cows right on the path. It is one of my favorite Oxford memories.
It feels so good to see you over the years since 2018😊
Your videos are comforting me so much at university Ruby, have a great semester xx
Ruby, your videos are so comforting! Love watching them 💖💛
Good luck for the new academic term. Hope you are getting on alright at Oxford Ruby. I take such delight in watching you progress in your endeavours. 😊
Love your videos, Ruby! Oxford is so enchanting! Your application to study is inspiring. wishing you every success for the new term. Love sue xxx
How lovely to see you. Yes I am actually having a good start to the year. Hope yours is excellent 👌
I am so glad that you are back at Oxford university and posting your vlogs. I am looking forward to what you will be studying in Term 2.
Your videos are always so motavating and help me to stop procrastinating! Thank you Ruby ❤
Love your vlogs. I’m starting uni on 29th Jan. thanks to you I’m all organised and ready for the new semester. Thankyou so much!!! ❤❤❤
Hey Ruby! I love your videos so much they are always so helpful and fun to watch. Hope you have a great time at Oxford👍👍
So happy to see a new video ☺️ loving your Oxford vlogs - your happiness shines through
Also Simon Armitage is from my town 🥰
Your videos are always so calming to watch makes my day ❤
Ruby you've become one of my favourite youtubers, your videos always make me feel good! I'm curious about crumpets, I've never tried them either and everybody seems to like them
I was soooo happy to see a new video. Thank you for inspiring us, Ruby. Much Love from Sri Lanka
So fast! Thanks for sharing this day with us Ruby :)))))
I needed a little slice of Oxford this morning as I jump into the online poetry class I'm teaching. So thank you!! And I continue to be envious of your Remarkable tablet. Some day!! I always want to annotate my readings, but I don't want to mark up my books, so a Remarkable would be wonderful. I also tend to write by hand and then type up later, which is fine for poems and short pieces, but not so much for books!! ;) Have a delightful day, Ruby!!
Warmly,
Susanne in San Diego :D
Hi Ruby, Started back teaching a new English student this week and thought Where's Ruby's Vlog? It just arrived and yes you are so productive!. Well done with the new term start and Oxford looks so wintery but beautiful. Have a great term and read lots. Debbie😀
We will always support you. Keep working hard no matter what.
I love your videos they inspire me so much don’t stop ❤
Ruby, you are just too sweet. Thanks for including your friends.
Goodluck Ruby!
Love the video as always Ruby! Thank you for the refillable deodorant recommendation too! I have been trying to find a good product to try and I even could use your code in the dutch store! Can’t wait to try them out!
Hii Rubyy
I miss Oxford. I've been once. We got to stay in the old town hall. Literally a castle with a view of the school. It was so cool! Felt like being in Harry Potter. Had the best time in the Eagle and Child pub. :D
Oxford is beautiful. I spent many years there doing my BA and later just floating about. Though, practically speaking, it's not a city, it's a town (it's just the Woolsey cathedral at Christ Church which gives it its status). And Blackwell's... I love Blackwell's- the best bookshop I've ever known. I wonder if The White Horse is still nearby. It used to be a very good pub.
I love Oceans writing I recently read Night Sky With Exit Wounds and On Earth we’re Briefly Gorgeous :). Both were amazing.
I love how you correlated your jumper with the wild deodorant! Cute little detail
Productivity = transcend your culturescape + question the brules + live in your blissiplines as much as you can
Wishing you the best in your research/expertise and your well-being whilst let your culture flow with purity like water. As always, take care and Happy Wild Practice!
Oh my gosh, I LOVE wild and everything they stand for! They're a certified B-corp, which means that they've met a series of standards that guarantee they are sustainable (to a certain extent) both socially and environmentally! So, so amazing. I've purchased their deodorant as a Christmas gift for myself and it was the most exciting present EVER! They also gave me three 50% discounts for my friends. Highly recommend!
Ruby, I will have to be as productive as you. Thank you for your inspiring videos 🩷
Vamos ahí, fuerza!!
LOL at your reaction to Sweetman because it reminded me of when I literally threw one of Nietzsche's books across the room at his attitude towards women. Have a great term at Oxford!
Ahhh I love that!
Hey Ruby I love your video so much. I don't know if you remember but a couple of months ago I asked if you would do a video on your writing process from beginning to end, you could do a series of the different stages. I would love it if you did that as I'm sure you have great advice that could help. Thank you
Look at Abbie Emmons for writing, she has really good videos for literally everything that has anything to do with writing
Thank you so much. You are very kind for replying to me.😃😃😃@@katya1455
Are you a writer too?
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3:40 you look just like your Mum in that cardigan with your hair back. Its adorable
Ruby, as others have commented, the black horizontal bars in that sequence might be caused by the flicker of LED illumination in that particular location. Your camera sensor records stuff that the human eye either tunes out or does not have the capacity to resolve. From a physics and Philip Larkin nerd. Best wishes for your studies in 2024.
Yes crumpets are fab . . but unfortunately they are not made here in Iceland but I always have them when visiting UK and that book Shakespeare on Toast looked so interesting and I also found many other interesting books about Shakespeare by the same author, so thanks for the intro to him.
Love wild deodorant. Used it religiously for years. In fact probably my only long standing habit, I jump between all my other health and well-being products but wild has definitely stood the test of time for me
The emptiest barrels - priceless! Will definitely use in my work place! 😂
Isn’t it great!
I read the Swetnam and Speght pamphlets in my undergrad! Swetnam also made me super angry but Speghts piece makes him look like a fool. She’s brilliant.
Ruby you have inspired me so much. I am going to Boston and New England in September because I adored your vlogs so much. I also chose Canterbury university because of its dark academia/ cosy vibes which is I think why you may have chosen Oxford. I am so happy you are content in such a perfect for you place.
Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Harvard's Field Museum are ahhhhmazing as well. Highly recommend both.
And the Boston Library has a tea room which is absolutely brilliant!
Gotta know if you watched Saltburn over your Christmas break? Feels like a must if you're studying at Oxford :)
I must watch it still! I kept on meaning to!
At 3:25, you have black stripes on your video because your camera is filming on a different frequency than the light in the elevator is going. A light that is switched on always goes on and off, but it goes so quickly that we cannot see it. You can compare it with a video: it consists out of hundereds of pictures, but when you have 24 pictures per second (or more) it will feel smooth and you won’t recognise you are looking at a bunch of pictures. The problem here in you video is just that the light and your “frames per second” on your camera are different, this way your camera actually captures the light going off! Which is very cool I think 😊
You can also see it in some clips right before the elevator clip that the lights are flickering. It is funny to think that we are standing in the dark without even knowing/seeing it haha
Mental note: Must try crumpets. Crumpets are fab.😘
Crumpets now you started something Ruby I have to nip to the shops now😊
'But the emptiest barrels make the largest sound.' Genius!
Could you make a video on place notebooks? Would love to hear your thoughts ❤
Lovely vlog as always. :)
Hi Ruby, not sure if you talked about it anywhere already, but id be curious to learn what it's like to be among people of "your kind" :) as in... all of those people there are hard working, love studying, aimed for oxford and got in! Do you feel a connection to them? Is it easier to build friendships?
GoPro? This is caused by your lighting.
Traditional bulbs are always "on". LED lights however are not always on. They flash on and off rapidly, too fast for the eye to see, but easily picked up as black lines on your camera.
You need to go into your regional settings and change the HZ settings to 50HZ or 60HZ depending on what it's currently set up to. This is also in your NTSC/Pal settings.
If this doesn't eliminate the problem, you can adjust your shutter speed manually.
Would love the link to those pamphlets! they sound interesting and I'd love to read, thanks!
How do you like the remarkable tablet? I’m thinking of getting one but not sure! Also where do you get your clothes? Love your style❤
Did you vlog your time at the Charles Dickens museum? I’d love to see it. ❤
Ruby as I saw one comment you viewed, I thought perhaps a book you need to read is ‘A Room with A View’. There is also a film which is beautiful and heartwarming. It stars Helen Bonham Carter who is - as you know - Bellatrix Lestrange in Harry Potter. Love this video, as usual.
Ruby, pleaseee read 'A Room of One's Own' if you haven't already. I adore Virginia Woolf, she is easily my favourite writer, and there is a section of the book based on her experience of being a woman at Oxford. If you get round to it, please let us know what you think. Ella x
Oh it’s just wonderful!!! You have good taste ;)
A lovely video. I may well be wrong, but the blossom you saw could be winter Viburnam. If it is the scent is gorgeous!
ooh I'll smell it when I next pass! Thank you!
Your friend seems so nice!!
Ruby, you asked a similar question as it was answered by a Stephen Schiller online, albeit not for an elaborate as his - was just interested myself, not only from a scientific point of view but also from a philosophical - what and how do we perceive what we believe to be 'real'?
Here the similar question:
(Qestion) Why does my desk lamp seem to emit flickering stripes of light when viewed through my phone camera while to the naked eye the area is evenly lighted?
(Stephen Schiller) Because the light from the lamp is actually going on and off at a fast rate, faster than you can perceive. And, because a video camera may likely be sampling the light for only brief milliseconds for every movie frame, at a rate of about 25 to 30 times a second, this capture interval is delayed from image row to image row. And, because if the frequencies of the lamp flicker and the frequency of the camera frame rate are close but not exactly the same, you will see a variety of effects that could be described as “spatial moire” and overall flickering.
From an engineering/mathematical point of view (which I am pretty sure nobody wants to hear about), this is caused by “nonlinear frequency mixing” in both the time and spatial domains.
Hi Ruby, I was looking for the paper in response to Sweetman - I couldn't find it in the description do you think u could link it 😊
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I like the decrease in plastic! Going to see if I can find it in the US. Where are Holly and Anika from? I think I heard American accents…
I love wild but they don’t work on me 😭
I hated it 😢 it’s so greasy
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@@belwynne1386 actually I thought wild is from the US 😂
Hi Ruby, what your favourite tea? ❤
Ruby , friends & followers ...i cracked the coffeebeans today jan. 21st 2024 by myself in a mill ...tasty so much more power of choclate , rosted aroma and planty more item's ... this is right now the most ultimate way to "enjoy" coffee ( trust me i'am a busdriver with excellent knowledge about coffee ☕)
Ruby do you try different sugar types like white or brown sugar ? or milk infill with other fat-percent ?
Hi ruby, I love the jumper/sweatshirt you’re wearing at the start, where is it from? Love your video as always xx
Wonderful video really enjoyable 😊
Thank you! X
Never miss a vlog! Can you please link the kindle with the pencil you use? Idk if it is a kindle btw 😓
Can you please link down the pamphlet you are reading? Sounds interesting :) Btw I really enjoy your videos. more power to you sis
“Crumpets are - fab” no more words needed.
It's crazy how some unis have already started a new semester and I've still got a month of finals 😭
it's so nice to see you back in oxford! you're inspiring me, especially with your heated blanket
Can you do an updated video on time management? ❤
I love a bit of butterd crumpet with marmite on-toasted by the fire on a winters night.😋
I can't agree with the marmite - but otherwise this sounds delightful!
I would toast them on those 3-bar heaters. With my fingerless gloves and a blanket to keep the cold away. 😊@@RubyGranger8
AHHH SO COOL! Where did you get your watch from? I love your sense of style and would love an analog watch
it was actually from a vintage shop, but the brand of the clock face is Fossil x
I really appreciate u, u study whole day whereas we Indian students have destroyed our lives by studying whole night then sleeping in day light and after waking up ,chill around and into sleeping hrs at night time 12 midnight sit to study if u see the Indian vlogs.
Where did you buy the electric blanket. I love it 😊
Ruby do you have a sore throat , how do u like to be back to Oxford after being home for Christmas
“The emptiest barrels make the loudest sound”. What a burn 😂
Could you tell me what the device is that you use for readings and notations, thank you
How are you liking the Remarkable tablet?
I would love to know where you bought your book of common place from 😃 I think I remember you embossed it yourself though?
Have you read the play inspired by the pamphlet? I got to see a first edition at my university’s rare books and manuscripts library
No I haven’t! That’s so cool that you saw it! Do you know what it’s called? D
I don't see anyone writing about it. So from my knowledge, these black stripes are a kind of interference between the speed of your camera taking pictures to make a video and the speed of blinking light bulbs in your (elevator?). Probably for lighting this room they used LED bulbs which constantly blink at a frequency high enough not to be noticeable to our eye, but if the camera with which you record the film takes time-lapse pictures at the same frequency, you can observe just such phenomena as blinking of light or black stripes appearing on the screen.
Did you just get the remarkable? I would love a detailed video on you using it and how you like it and also how you take notes on your ipad pro as well.
No, I think she got it some years ago, they sent it for free for her to try it out. She liked it in the end but i think she uses more her iPad for classes bc you can do more with it like access internet, videos etc. you should see her older videos, I think you can find the video with review 😊
Precisely! Ah I couldn’t have said it better! I reviewed it in a video “reviewing overhyped study tube products” and really like it, but would recommend the iPad if you were to get one or the other x
“The emptiest barrels make the largest sounds” 👏👏
Hi ruby love your videos from Philippines ❤️.
this might sound silly but where can i find a book bag like ruby's marauders one? i hate that my planner gets all ruined in my backpack :')
The marketing budget for The Boy and the Heron must be pretty substantial and interestingly specific.
I really miss your daily university videos😢😢😢❤
Studying in a room with walls full of books ❤.
Hey, now I see a portrait of Shakespeare in the mural. It's true the fact nobody really know how to spell is last name, because William always wrote it different?
CRUMPETS ARE FAB
what do you use to write/annotate on your readings here?
Hi Ruby! Do you prefer digital reading, or physical copies? I love your videos!
I prefer physical, but digital can be much more convenient! X
If there’s one city where I can live for the rest of my life, it would be Oxford!