Take a Week-Long Education Vacation at Oxford

They say "you can't teach an old dog new tricks," but people are not dogs. If it's been awhile since you went to school, learning can be a little harder, but you're just out of practice — all the more reason to get your mind back into shape.

Oxford University is offering week long summer courses for ages 25 and up at Christ Church, one of its most prestigious colleges, July 4 through August 7 for £1,050, or $1,691. That includes tuition, accommodation, and all meals. Your accommodation will be a dorm, so don't expect a private bathroom (though you can request one at an additional cost), and if you want to get off campus at all, expect to pay out of pocket.

The idea of staying on campus for a full week at Oxford University, studying or writing in your room when you're not sleeping, eating or at class, is pretty exciting. "Everyone can feel the magic of Christ Church, entering beneath Christopher Wren's Tom Tower (pictured), being greeted by a bowler-hatted porter while gazing at Tom Quad and the college chapel (which is also the Oxford Cathedral)," said a school representative. It's a chance to truly re-experience that bubble of learning most of us couldn't wait to break as kids.

Onto the courses; there are over 50 (click here for a full list), including The Beatles: Popular Music and Sixties Britain, The Brontës, The Archaeology of English Cathedrals, The English Romantic Poets, Introduction to the History and Science of Cosmology, Jewish Life in Medieval England, Oxford Murder, Romanesque Churches of England, The Crusades, Twilight of the Romanovs and more. Each course includes related social activities in which students of all ages can partake.

The Oxford Experience requires more than just your willingness to learn; you have to apply for your course of choice.

The deadline for registration is May 1, 2010. Be cool and go to school!

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