Sydney University's spanking new SciTech library has a fantastic design - it's a big evolution from the uber 70s Fisher... with its uber 80s style:
2. Be a ninja
3. Everyone runs off to class at around 5 to any hour, so the clogs of people should start to treacle off around then. But it's also the time when everyone else finishes class - so time is of the essence before floods of economic group work students rampage in talking about 'who wants to present' ughhhh
Spy in the distance, looking through the furniture.
5. Make sure you don't miss out on any of the computers on the lowest tier of the library or the distant laptop rooms.
6. People seem to think that leaving your open book and water bottle at the computer is enough to reserve it. Feel free to shove all their crap to the ground and sit there browsing eel porn sites on their account. When they kick you off, report their marine fetish in tears to the librarian.
Strike while they're alone and not in group work!
8. While waiting near a squeamish looking person, talk loudly on the phone about how you've been using the lip balm of your friend who was just diagnosed swine flu. Then start coughing dramatically, splattering tomato sauce and mustard packets over the screen of the computer user.
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Posted by tonch at
11:35 pm
This next one was in Wynyard. There was an elderly woman (1) having trouble walking down the stairs while another elderly woman (2) was patiently behind her. Labels: 440 bus, chai latte, eavesdropping, sydney, sydney spy, sydney university, usyd Posted by tonch at
6:12 pm
No, it's not the entire UWS, it's in the Education building. Go inside, you'll see a stairway leading down DOWN DOWN opposite you. The dungeon is full of beautiful education students who are trained to be friendly young teachers who somewhere along the line mutate into bitter, crusty librarians. Turn left and into the blue (literally) and there it sits, often with free spaces. Labels: secret computer rooms, sydney spy, sydney university, sydneyspy, usyd Posted by tonch at
7:00 pm
I'm glad they're making over the university... but can't they instead make it worse so we don't have to feel sad about graduating? Ticket Inspectors & Train Police Labels: sydney, sydney spy, sydney trains, sydney university, sydneyspy, usyd
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Overheard at Sydney Uni
While the above African-American and Soccer Mom have nothing to do with the demographic of USyd, eavesdropping is fun and your only option for the bus when your i-Pod headphones break again. So here are a few quotes heard around campus from the past few weeks.
In the library
Girl to man at info desk: "Is there somewhere in here where I can sleep?"
(though it's what we're ALL thinking)
Carslaw
Guy at gymnastics society booth: "HEY HANDSOME BOY! COME BUY SOME FOOD!"
(marketing major?)
Arts students walking on Eastern Avenue:
Guy 1: "You want to Chai?"
Guy 2: "Nah, I need something stronger, like a Latte"
(slow down there cowboy, one day it's latte, the next it's flat-whites!!)
Walking out of lecture
Guy: These are my girlfriend's skinny-jeans I'm wearing
Girl: They look good on you :
(after he said that, gravity bent in on itself and a nebulus entity swallowed the room)
On the 440
Guy: I really need to get one of those bus passes. Why do they call it a Travel 10?
Girl: Because you get 10 trips >_>
Guy: Oh.. yeah i'd get one but I'd have to walk all the way to Seaforth shops
Girl: Doesn't that take 10 minutes? <_<
Guy: But it's on a hill.
(i'm sure your parents will carry you, son)
Elderly woman 1: Sorry about this
Elderly woman 2: That's ok, I'm disabled too
Elderly woman 1: It's terrible isn't it
Elderly woman 2: Isn't it
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Secret Computer Rooms at USyd
Turn right, go along the corridor, turn right again and you'll see some computers. 
Now i've never actually used these computers, but the climb itself will be worth the dramatic view of UTS (the cause of this bad weather).
Education Basement
Language Labs
Follow the hallway, past the notice boards, consider taking up a Chinese/English language exchange on the noticeboards then you'll see it.
It often has spaces free, either in this room or Lab 1 opposite it. However from 12am to 2pm, it can get crowded. It also comes free with some random French woman who randomly comes in and shouts at you if you leave your bags unattended.
HINT: The computers are a bit close together, so avoid one where everyone will be pushing past you every few seconds.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Sydney This Week In Pictures
Eastern-er Avenue
First of all, words play hide and seek with me when I try to express how happy I am with the new uber massive Eastern Avenue in Sydney University. When you see all the people there between classes, it's hard to believe they all frottaged together on that small path a third of the size.
I'm sure it was just an ex-boyfriend or life-coach or something.
Outside Hairdresser
Spotted in Bondi. Why not? It's like a solarium/hairdresser. Her overheads must be expensive, if she has to rent the entire outside world. 
She also does Brazilan waxing - spectator fees vary depending on weather conditions. I just hope a bird does fly in and cause genital Lyme disease.
