Sydney Life

Herein are my tips on coffee around campus. If the availability of good coffee and snack-holes near campus is important to you, Sydney Uni is the place to go. Quick Disclaimer: only one of these places are actually on campus. There are other places, like the USU-run coffee carts, but they aren’t renowned for their culinary standards. They are more about getting snack-food for studying, like Pods. Pods ....

Given the previous blog you would probably be surprised that I actually have time to write blogs at all. I am surprised I have time to write blogs. In fact, I should be in a pre-exam fit right now, but procrastination is a calming ailment. So here it is, the second-half of my long, long days on campus

At the moment I live in a world of chalk dust and footpath art. It is a lovely yet hectic land which I like to think I stroll through with the air of a flâneur, enjoying the smell of fresh paint in the Graffiti Tunnel and watching piles of printed propaganda float by in the breeze.

Oh yes, it is Union election time again.

0730
Alarm clock goes off. Radio starts singing, in counter-point falsetto, some heinous opera in German. In the semi-conscious haze, with a hint of disbelief that it’s morning already, I wonder why they always play that stuff so early in the morning. Is it someone’s twisted idea of a joke? Is it too much to ask for a GENTLE wakeup call from a CLASSICAL station? Grudgingly, I slam the snooze button. I slam again and having not missed this time, the Radio shuts up.

0800
The battle with the Radio has always been a lost cause. After several bloody skirmishes I concede defeat. I toss my doona aside, blindly feel for my glasses from the nightstand, and reach for my towel.

So. When I was in Canada I was forced by the inflexible nature of the country's snow problem to buy a pair of warm boots.

Attempting to scale the sandstone walls of the Quadrangle and being caught by security probably isn't the smartest thing to do after a night at Manning. Before you jump to any conclusions, it wasn't me (the guy will remain anonymous). But I do understand why you'd want to climb onto the other side because I've recently contributed to the growing list of inanimate objects that people seem to fall in love with.

You've made it. You've got your offer. You've enrolled. Now you're ready to start uni. There is a simple list of to do's to get ready for uni.

Oh, and by the way, welcome to the University of Sydney!

February is a very gay month in Sydney. It is Mardi Gras season again, which features a month-long festival of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer cultures in Sydney. And this year, Mardi Gras Festival sprinkles its rainbow glitter all over Sydney University...

After three weeks of great events, the Verge Arts Festival comes to a close.

With faculty reviews, concerts, exhibitions, awards, radio broadcasting and a screening of Harry Potter in the main quad, Verge has become an unmissable event in the student calendar.

Last week I did something I haven’t done since November last year….I went back to the Cumberland Campus at Lidcombe for uni. After 20 weeks of prac work in the hospitals and 9 weeks of glorious holiday, it was finally time to start the last 7 weeks of my undergraduate degree in Physiotherapy.

I can’t really complain. I only have 4 days of uni , not the usual 5, plus I am learning how to manipulate backs and best of all I get to visit the famous Cumberland lolly shop (where students get to stock up on their favourite lollies to help get them through long lectures!)

Sydney Uni LIVE! A fun filled day of frollicking amongst the sandstone. It's actually the only day of the year where I don't feel a twinge of guilt walking on the grass in the Main Quad. Then again, I am mildly obsessive compulsive.

Some of you may be aware that Sydney Uni has received some unwelcome media attention lately. Apparently, Jewish members of the student community have been physically and verbally abused on campus. Nothing, and I repeat this, NOTHING, could be more utterly reprehensible than this, and the actions of these students in no way reflect the values of the University of Sydney.

Just like Joni Mitchell said, you don't know what you've got til it's gone.
I'm due to finish my studies here in less than three months, and I have only just realised that my weekly visits to the Nicholson Museum will have to wind up, too.

Whooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pretty much sums it up.

Dr Condoleeza Rice, the first African-American female US Secretary of State, is a facinating public person and an enigma to most. I've heard her referred to as "The Most Powerful Woman in the World", "The Neo-Wicked Witch of the West" and "The Right-Wing Oprah". See what happened when she came to speak to 300 students at Sydney University's Conservatorium of Music...

The statue is a rare and mythical beast whose long and magnificent history is the envy of less hardy and interior based objects such as bars of soap. Come, gentle reader as I take you on a tour of some of the most interesting specimens in their natural habitat.