Sunday, 12 October 2008

far too many notes for my taste

Title from 'Phantom of the Opera' soundtrack. I'm on a soundtrack binge lately, could you tell?

Hmmm, I have nothing much to say. How about another picture post?

This is the M24 I mentioned the last time I posted a photo from uni. This is also known as the Psychology Building. Five floors, the first being a psychology clinic where the postgraduate students often work. The second floor is filled with classrooms and offices, the third floor is basically one large computer lab, and the fourth floor is, once again, mostly classrooms and offices, and the fifth floor has laboritories where things like dissecting brains and running rats through mazes are done.

Also--you probably noticed this by now--it's a rather vibrant shade of mustard yellow. That continues to the inside of the building too.

I have some of the best and worst classes inside this building. Among the best; Individual and Social Psychology, which is about how people interact and the basics of abnormal psychology, and Psychological Science and Society, which is about psychology in media and popular debates among psychologists (for example, a topic such as homosexuality: nature or nurture, on which I recently wrote an essay and presented an oral report.) Among the worst: Research Methods and Statistics 1, the report for which I have just handed in. That class is a nightmare, and is the first of at least four to come. Ugh.

There are several reasons I like this building. For a start, it's essentially home base for all psychology students at my university, so necessity forces me to, at the very least, not loathe it. Second, despite the myriad corridors, it somehow manages to avoid feeling as claustrophobic as some buildings on campus do (see: the windowless M10 about which I once posted, which seems cramped and subterranean even in the upper floors. M24 manages to avoid that feeling, even though most of the rooms are physically smaller, by having very large windows and generally good lighting.) Third, while the third floor is a place of dread due to my statistics class taking place in one of the computer labs there, I have nothing but good memories associated with the second and fourth floors.

Hmm. I really must take more photos, of more interesting things. I simply don't have much to amuse me while I'm at uni.

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