Tell us about your university

[GinandTonic]

Soz no pix.

Sussex University. We got a nobel for C60, but more importantly had the highest number of pubs and bars per capita of any university in the UK and the highest amount of sunshine of any campus in the UK. Our students union entertainments department was also legendary becoming the Essential Festival after the university *alegidly* could no longer tolerate the riders for the talent. Flying in the collection of 300 teddy bears from the the west indies they could live with, but the coke and hookers crossed the line. Alegidly.

Anyway, we had fun.

 

[Babbler]

Soz no pix.

Just steel them from the official website.

Sussex University. We got a nobel for C60, but more importantly had the highest number of pubs and bars per capita of any university in the UK and the highest amount of sunshine of any campus in the UK.

The goes my theory about why the British drink so much...

 

[Brighteye]

Oxford's fairly famous. I expect a few of you to have heard of it. There are plenty of photos around, and they sum up the place.
As for quirks, when every party is a group of people all of whom know each other, nothing interesting happens, and uninteresting things become hot gossip.
Since every party is restricted to groups of 400 people or fewer (college bops), people do know each other.
It's also the most prudish university in the country, with less sex than anywhere else. Stupid Oxford girls.

 

[CaptainF]

University of Oregon!

Official seal, translates from latin as "Minds Move The Mass".

The fabled Hayward Field, which has hosted the US Olympic Track and Field trials three times, and will do so again in 2008.

Lillis Business Complex, home to numerous schools of business. The glass facade you see there has lots of small solar panels built in. It has thus received many awards for enviro-considerations, and it is the largest array of solar glass in the Pacific Northwest.

Knight Library, so named because Phil Knight, UO alumnus and co-founder of Nike, donated a lot of moolah to fund it's renovation.

Erb Memorial Union, center of much campus activity and restaurants, and filming site of the "I'm a zit!" food fight scene from Animal House.

The "fighting duck" mascot, which was involved in a hilarious battle with the Houston Cougar at a recent football game:

Duck Pwns Cougar.

I might add more later!

 

[Fifty]

My school has no physical building, but here is the cool banner:

 

[Fetus4188]

I attend UCLA, where we recently won our 100th national championship and even more recently lost an embarrassing football game to Utah. Other notable honors include: tasering that guy in the library last year (he deserved it), discovery of AIDs, home of an original ARPANET node, former home of SWAC, alma mater of Ron Jeremy, and more applicants than any other school in the country.

More importantly (to me anyway) the campus is gorgeous. It's also 75 degrees with blue skies every day. Except in January, then it's 72.

Here's a small portion of north campus. The campus is "split" between the humanities in the north and math, science, and engineering in the south. The medical center is about the size of the traditional campus in itself and is south of south campus.

Royce Hall has an outstanding theater and showcases the Italian Romanesque architecture typical of the campus. It also has a bunch of built in imperfections as the architect was of Amish heritage and held that only God was perfect. So it is both majestic and quirky.

Powell Library across the way from Royce. Home of said tasering.

A woefully small picture of a woefully small portion of the UCLA Hall of Fame.

The front entrance to Public Policy, which I personally have nothing to do with but it is worth mentioning because for some strange reason people like to steal the "L".

The Bruin statue, about which you can often find screaming or crying children as their mothers try to get them to take a picture with it.

The inverted fountain. Rather than shoot water skyward this fountain goes down. It's quite large and circulates 10,000 gallons/minute. While it may look a little strange, it sounds great; like having a small river rolling through south campus. Incidentally there was originally a stream that went through the land UCLA is built on. Being Los Angeles of course the founders couldn't leave any sort of natural running water so it got covered up or routed underground or something. The Daily Bruin had some article about a 100ft section being restored over by the Anderson school of something-or-other (management?), I'll have to check that out some time. In the background is Knudsen, one of our physics buildings, which had the unfortunate luck to be designed in the 70s I think.

 

[Smidgey]

University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland:

Founded in 1582 by royal charter from King James VI.

It was one of the major centres of the Scottish Enlightenment. Here is a list of some of the famous alumni:

Adam Smith:

David Hume:

Charles Darwin:

Alexander Graham Bell:

James Clerk Maxwell:

Gordon Brown:

Arthur Conan Doyle:

Robert Louis Stevenson:

This is The Philosophy building where I spend much of my time:

Here is The McEwan Hall, where graduations take place:

This is the Old College, where the law school is, and in my opinion one of the nicest buildings in the university, if not the city:

Here is Teviot Row House, the oldest purpose built student union in a world. A very nice building to look at as well:

And finally, here is New College (where the school of divinity and theology is, it was originally a church establishment before becoming a school of the university), on a nice cold winters day!

 

[JZ_UK]

I went to Keele University for my undergrad degree.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keele_University

Keele is notable for a few things:

Only Uni in Europe to be connected to a village not a town or city.

Its the largest single campus Uni in Europe (used to be the country estate of the Sneyd family - their manor house, Keele Hall is a nice building to visit - but sodding awful to have a class in! Ever crammed 20 law students into an antic with low ceilings, in winter with no heating and not enough chairs AND THEN tried to get them to participate in a LAND LAW seminar?!)

Used be known as "The Kremlin on the Hill" because of its Left-wing politics and well... its on a hill Today its not particularly Left-wing, but the student body continues the tradition by standing up to the growing Far Right presence in Stoke.

Keele's students got Keele onto the new UK edition of Monopoly ^_~

Uni was orginally supposed to be an educative commune, with all the students and all the lecs living on campus, this fell away after a while, but theres still a pretty high number of lecs living on campus and you certainly feel you're in the "Keele bubble" when you're there.

Oh, and of course, the pay pack of our Vice-Chancellor... who takes home more than any other VC in the country... and I've seen her exactly twice... once when she introduced the Law Lord Baroness Hale (of Richmond I think...) and once at graduation...

http://www.keele.ac.uk/

Some shots of Keele...

Heres (much) of the campus from the air:

Heres the chapel... notice the security camera... god really is watching:

View from the Walter Mobely building (where I gotz my Japanese learnin') facing the Students' Union:

View from WM towards the some halls, I forget which they are... I lived in the supposedly decadent splendor of Holly Cross and thus had no cause to visit pleb accommodation...:

The rear face of Keele Hall:

View from the Hornbeam building towards the Med School (white thing right in the far center):

Rear of the Dorthey Hodkins Building:

Side on view of the front of the Library:

I'll do another one for my current Uni, Staffordshire, some time too...


Thanks Whomp

 

[Whomp]

JZ_UK--You need to load as jpgs or pngs. I have images hosted at imageshack.

Very cool pics everyone.

 

[Goonie]

The school that mine was modelled after. We stole some of your unique institutions that cannot be found anywhere else in Canada, i.e. the student Rector.

University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland:

Founded in 1582 by royal charter from King James VI.

 

[emzie]

Carleton University is an university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1942, and located between the Rideau Canal (now a world heritage site) and the Rideau River. Known for its great journalism and international affairs programs and bad labour relations. One of the few universities to have a mineral named after it.

Random friends don't let friends comment.

 

[Kal'thzar]

I'd also like to post something about edinburgh but heck I'm lazy

heres one building from the science campus (kings Buildings)

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?i...h+Science+Campus&svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&safe=off

just look at the size of that URL


Anyway, I'm away for one year at the ETH Zurich. Soooo

heres a pic of its science campus built on a hill overlooking Zurich (it really is a hill, not a moutain, which you can almost see in the background)
http://www.vestaldesign.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Snapshot 2006-12-21 11-50-19.jpg


and heres the main building

http://www.enohe.ethz.ch/Bilder/Semper-Bau-Raemi-b.gif

But I'd wait for some swiss person to do the place properly (unless they go to the Uni of Zurich )

 

[Babbler]

Random friends don't let friends comment.

Pardon me?

 

[downtown]

Great posts so far!

I go to The Ohio State University, located a few blocks from Downtown (no relation), Columbus Ohio. It is one of the largest universities in the United States, with an undergraduate enrollment of well over 50,000. At the undergraduate level, the school has recently made large academic strides, as it is now recognized as one of the better public universities in the US. Its graduate programs, from Law, to Medicine, to Economics, are also very good.

Some pictures!

This is the RPAC, our new student Gym and Rec center. Its one of the largest student gyms in the country, and where Downtown hangs out a lot. In addition to its massive weight rooms, basketball courts, indoor running track, and multiple swimming pools, the RPAC also has food, a "game room", ping pong, racketball, squash courts, and more. Its awesome.

This is an overhead shot of "the Oval", which is kind of the center of campus. In the background, you can see two of the large residential towers next to the stadium. Most of my classes are around this area.

No talk of OSU would be complete without talking about TBDBITL, or The Best Damn Band In The Land. OSU"s marching band is probably the best "military style" (no dancing or woodwinds) band in the country, if not the world, and attracts recruits from all over the country. The also perform the most famous college band tradition, Script Ohio. I tried out for this group, but a knee injury prevented me from being able to make the band.

This is Ohio Stadium, or The Horseshoe. Its where the Ohio State football team, one of the best in the country, places. The stadium is HUGE (over 100,000). Because of construction, the Student Union is also in this building.

 

[Perfection]

The school that mine was modelled after. We stole some of your unique institutions that cannot be found anywhere else in Canada, i.e. the student Rector.

Your school may be modeled on that one, but it leaves a lot to be desired. Most notably teaching the students to not quote huge posts for a one line reply.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

I've finally found some pics of my university.
I study at the old university headquarters - not in the campus (so no pics of that)

Statue of a woman (on closer inspection it seems she was used as target practice at some point)

Spoiler :

Front entrance - students get kicked out if they want to enter through here. Which is one more reason why so many go through there - it makes a boring thing more intresting.

Spoiler :

A wider view of the street-side:

Spoiler :

This is the library - i've never been inside.

Spoiler :

 

[JZ_UK]

This is the library - i've never been inside.

Best line ever spoken by a student ^_^

 

[downtown]

Shortguy: I've heard that people often wear suits and ties to the football games. Is that true? Why? Also, do you have to pay to watch the game from that lawn?

IC-I understand the yellow jacket, but why the car?

 

[shortguy]

Shortguy: I've heard that people often wear suits and ties to the football games. Is that true? Why? Also, do you have to pay to watch the game from that lawn?

On the dress--it's sort of true. There is a significant contingent among the students and recent alumni that like to "dress up" for games; for ladies, that usually means sundresses, for guys it can be anything from a shirt, tie, and khaki shorts to a coat and tie. I don't imagine many people wear "suits," per se. As to why, it's just a tradition; it's a fairly common thing at southern universities, though. I think Auburn, Georgia, and some other SEC schools do it too. When he first got here Al Groh tried to eliminate that tradition in favor of the "sea of orange," causing no small amount of controversy. It's hard to say how many people actually dress up for games, but it's a good number.

On the lawn: I assume you mean the hill? Students can sit either there or in the sections right across the stadium from the camera in that picture I posted (the full sections are student sections). Students only have to present their student IDs to get in a game.

 

[cubsfan6506]

Queen's University in Kingston (about 250 kilometres east of Toronto).

This is a picture of our castle in England where students can live, study, and take classes.

Thats awesome does your college have a website.