What do you WANT from life?! Oxford academic explains how to make GOOD choices when it comes to unis 

Can I just say how wonderful it is to hear someone who whole-heartedly champions "happiness" as the top priority in making a decision. It's super refreshing to hear!

Hi, I want to say thank you for all of your videos, and your talk in the PPE workshop which really helped me prepare for the interview. Although I was rejected, I got myself back up after watching your video about dealing with Oxford rejections. The whole application process has been a good experience for me and a unique lesson for my personal growth. I hope I can have the chance to meet you and all the enthusiastic academics in postgrad:)

Thank you for that powerful message that is utterly neglected in much of higher education as well as the labour market!

What an absolute lad. Thank you once again sir.

What you said sir in 19 minutes, education counsels in my country have failed to communicate for years. Thank you.

Another great video! Thanks to your TSA guide I was able to raise my score from the low 40s to a 78 in the span of two weeks. Now, I'm working to fulfil my conditional offer. I could not have done it without your thoughtful, compassionate, and insightful advice. Please keep making more content!

Matt, your videos are incredible.

This man has such a motivational and inspiring attitude!

Thank you for this video! So helpful and I really enjoyed the scientific take on it

This is a Wonderful video Matt! I agree with you on all of it. The thing is, is that there is so much to this topic. Being Happy with in ones self is not always easy. I think it depends on how we were raised. It depends on how much disfunction we have to deal with from our childhoods. I really do feel that if we do not love ourselves we can not be truly Happy. In my experience it has been a back and forth situation. There is a lot to this subject. This would be to long of a comment if I kept writing. Your Attitude and approach to this very Human and important topic is Wonderful! It shows you Care. Thank You Matt, Jeff

Wish we had such invaluable advice when I applied to uni!

This is by far the best thing on the internet I have seen. Big statement? Maybe! But Matthews videos are simply brilliant.

Hi there, I'm not from the UK, nor am I applying to Oxford but I want to say that you are truly amazing! your videos are so eloquently put and your voice feels like a reassuring hug! I am currently finishing up my final year of high school in Australia and I have been accepted to study PPE at the Australian National University. In my excitement of searching for information about the degree I seem to have come across this channel. I can tell that you are genuine, keep it up!

Aww.. another great video... and you look really handsome today!

Thanks for the video

I really wish I had seen this at 18!

Hi Matt, for the foundation year (PPE) essay, what do you think my focus should be on? Academics, personal life, or extra curricular? What would you say is the key ingredient for the foundation year essay? Thanks

May you please share tips to make a good application because I'm going to enroll oxford this year. thanks

Hi, I’m very young to be watching this (Doing GCSEs). My question is, for the longest time I’ve had an adoration for literature and delving deeply into texts. However I also have a interest in politics, as like you say it is like a grubby soap opera. I’d love to at some point in the future go into it. So for me, would classics and English help me on my way. I love learning new texts and skills, hence the interest in classics, and English is just what gives my joy. There is obstacles to me taking it, but with work I believe I can. But as you where saying, it is subjects like these which release the dopamine for me, and are what I wish to continue. Hopefully that question made sense, but I’m just wondering so I know what I should focus on at A-level and if I need to add in extra Latin or Greek.

"most of my students have never studied __". I'm sorry but I just can't unhear (not a word) that. I was playing this video in my lab and some people almost choked with laughter.

I wish I had watched this two years ago

Hello, you mention that Oxford sees all A-Levels as equal(except for General studies and required A-levels). Does that mean for all A-Levels that are not necessary for a subject are seen as equal even if some are Russel Group preferred subjects while some are not?

What do I want in life? I want to comment on Jesus College Videos... I was born for this!

Hey, I'm currently in year 12 hoping to apply for PPE, I'm wondering how Oxford will look at GCSE grades from last year? I got a 9, four 8s, three 7s and two 6s. I started working a lot harder after my mocks so I feel like I could have done a lot better if I had taken the exams. Do my relatively poor GCSE grades prevent me from making a competitive application?

Hi im thirteen and really want to go to oxford later im from belguim at which age do i need to get good grades?

Does he have a podcast ?

I know it's a bit early to predict, but do you think that interviews will be in person for 2022 entry??

I will use my Oxford dictionary to look up the meaning of 'bewildered' how candid!

Another great video, although I have to disagree with you on one point: the idea that there is no such thing as a mathematical or non-mathematical brain! Speaking personally, I can assure you there is such a thing as a non-mathematical brain. Today it might be classed as Dyscalculia, but whatever it is called it can turn perfectly able students into quivering wrecks when presented with a numbers or Maths problem: an impenetrable fog literally descends. After hundreds of hours of extra maths (including coaching and self studying), I somehow dragged myself over the line to scrape a pass at O level (showing my age here). I have accepted that I simply have a non mathematical brain and that’s fine. It hasn’t hampered me academically (although I still perform appallingly in any quantitative-based skills test but fortunately I have generally manage to avoid those) or in my career. But if I had been given a pound for every time some well-meaning person assured me that ‘one day it will all suddenly click’ and ‘I used not to be able to do Maths but one day it all came to me’, then I’d have amassed a small fortune! It didn’t and it was never going to!

Effective Jesus algorithm... read bible everyday and end up in heaven after being saved. Being saved as a function of saving faith in Jesus Christ that leads to repentance.

Cold hard efficient science needs Jesus Christ Amen.