That's Pretty School

So I get a lot of questions (Well, I imagine I might if it was easier to correspond with me) about what my school is like.

Buildings, style and structure: It looks a lot like Hogwarts, at least the quadrangle (pictured above) does. All of the buildings look very English and, while some of them are quite new and chic (See New Law Building below), I don't find them very attractive.  However, I guess it's the same across most universities. Old buildings look old and creepy and new buildings look hospitable.

Campus Life: Walking through Campus at mid-day can be difficult at times. With 50,000 students, the place is always packed and everyone has somewhere to be. Correction, the place is always packed during school hours. On the weekends and at night, it's a ghost town. It's the ultimate commuter school, although there are some on campus "colleges" (a little similar to a Greek house/dormitories). There are pubs on campus. So if you've got time to kill between classes or aren't rushing to get back home, you can grab a brew with some friends and play some pool too. Universities in America should really look into this. Students spend a considerable amount of the cash on beer, why not have some of that money go back into the University.

Teachers: All seem fairly nice, are all interesting at times, and haven't put me to sleep in lecture yet.

Classrooms: Every row in a big lecture hall is graffitied. Students, bored or refusing to pay attention, uses pens and sharpies to write and draw random things on the places where people put their notebook. I find most of them pretty amusing and wonder, if these drawings are made without the intention of garnering fame or fortune, are they not the truest form of art? I guess the same could be made for bathroom art as well. Call me maybe crazy, but I prefer bathroom art and classroom doodles over heaps of modern art.

Assignments + Exams: There are relatively few assignments here. The majority of assessments are put into 1 or 2 exams and 1 or 2 papers plus either a mandatory 80% attendance or fail policy for toots aka recitations or you actually get a participation grade for attending your tutorial. I'm currently getting shalacked by assignments. I have two tests coming up, one next Thursday and then one Friday night (I'm really pissed about this one because I don't have any classes ever on Fridays, it's at night, and it's the only thing holding me back from my Mid-semester break). Friday night exams should be included into the Geneva convention.