[HPFGU-OTChatter]RHUL

junediamanti june.diamanti at blueyonder.co.uk
Thu Nov 20 21:11:46 UTC 2003


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn Cawte" 
<kcawte at n...> wrote:
> ~Eloise
> >
> > No!
> > I lived in that building for three years and still occasionally 
dream
> > about getting lost trying to find the right corridor, or having
> > problems with the archaic lifts or wandering round the tunnels. 
Of
> > course, in those far off days, it was still known as RHC.
> >
> 
> K
> 
> I had some of my classes in that building, I was perpetually lost -
 and the
> library in there is awful. Any library where your directions to 
the correct
> section can include things like 'first left, up the stairs, turn 
left and
> then right, across the landing, down the stairs and it's right 
behind you'
> is just evil! I half expected to travel through L-Space and end up 
in the
> Discworld :) Why is it necessary for every university to have one 
building
> where there are no windows on the corridors and every floor looks 
identical
> to every other? At least at my first university you could tell 
where you
> were by the numbering system for the rooms, I *never* worked out 
the
> numbering  system at RHUL.
> 
> On the other hand few universities have stately homes on campus. I 
have The
> Professionals on DVD and RHUL plays the part of a private school 
in one ep,
> Windsor substituted for London a couple of times too.
> 
> K

To both:

I was interviewed for there!  But went to The School of Slavonic and 
East European Studies instead (and try saying that lot when you're 
vodka-ed up).

June





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