This is Heslington Hall, the University's administrative centre. It's a lot nicer than the concrete buildings that make up the rest of campus! When my mum was a student here, you could book a room in Heslington Hall to have a party in, but common students don't often go in there very much anymore!
The campus will (pending a 2:1 in my BA) be my home for the next academic year - I got an offer for my MA course. I will be showing you York from a Student Perspective for some time yet!
The geese moved away as I tried to get a decent photo of this new family group - and believe me, you don't want to hassle the geese on campus - around this time of year they can get a little...agressive. Still, it's nice to see goslings and duckings around campus and York. (I signed a contract on my house for next academic year, so no matter what happens with my MA, I'll be here, taking a Daily Photo of York for your viewing pleasure.)
Campus has a random Buddha! It's the strangest thing, I often wonder why it is there. It is apparently donated by someone, according to the plaque, but it doesn't say why they donated a statue of Buddha. Buddha is currently surrounded by the building work on HERC, I think this is disturbing his meditation, and will be glad when the building work around him is gone!
I like this photo, and most of campus, because of the mix of styles and the fact that you can see the evolution of the university from beginning to present. The uni and campus may not be perfect, but it's still pretty impressive.
Now I'm going to nurse my bruises from falling down the stairs earlier. OW.
A silhouetted sun over the University lake. The lake is manmade, and was built along with the university in the 1960s. Heslington East is getting a new lake. It's lovely having a lake, even if it is really, really dirty. They can't turn the fountains on any more because the lake water is full of disease...The ducks and geese (which means ducklings and goslings are around right now), and the HUGE fish don't seem to mind though. The one of the best bits about campus is the ducks. The geese and swans are a bit evil...We used to have a Golden Duck, called Trevor (he was actually a Ruddy Shelduck.) Unfortunately he died a year or so ago, but the Students Union was mandated to buy two new Ruddy Shelducks to replace him. They have yet to buy new Trevors, which is very disappointing. I will try and post a picture of some cute ducklings soon.
It's good to be back :D
Understandably, a lot of my time (although much less since I moved into private rented accommodation) is spent on the University campus. Most of it is a series of fairly grey (although architecturally interesting) concrete buildings. In the right light, and from the right angles, these make lovely photos; my banner, for example, is Central Hall, and I do have a strange fondness for the odd angles.
The photo above is the Quiet Place. It's one of the older buildings on campus, near to Heslington Hall, the original home of the University, and now it's administrative centre. You can access the Quiet Place by asking the Derwent porters for the key and spend a quiet afternoon there, in peace.
