The Pathology Room: Things

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Things I like about Barts and the London:

The Halls:

Soo big and almost hotel-like
Deadly quiet so I basically get a kitchen and bog to myself
Lift talk-everyone chats in them, even if you have never met the bloke before they seem to wanna know what course your on and where your from.
Post actually reaches me
The beepy cards (more later)
The fact it looks slightly like a castle
Poirot lived here-so it must be good and there are 3 rolls royces outside the gates (all belong to me of course)

The Uni:

OOOO big helicopter lands on the roof and say morning to them off "Trauma" v exciting
Pathology place has swoooosh barriers but hard to explain-come visit
We have labs with floating rooms called "cell" "cloud" and "spikey"
The union is lovely
The people are even more lovely
There are only 19 people on our course and all seem friendly, higher boy:girl ratio than ucl
I found the doctors pub-where they all go to get drunk.
My ID card is fab (although picture is bad) it opens doors to everywhere and has chips and barcodes and swipe-ness and I have 4 different ID numbers

Comparing the ID card with the UCL paper one makes UCL seem a bit of a joke really, but never mind, I think UCL is inproving them

OK things I hate about Barts and the London:

The Halls

I couldnt get into the TV room and signal of TV here is a bit (well very) rubbish
The internet is kinda jerky
It freaks me out that I have a cleaner clean my room every few weeks
I get scared doing the laundry
One of the guys on our floor looks like a pervert, another one looks like a monkey
The security guards are the most unenthusiastic people I have ever met
Everyone is a bit posh (I know its not their fault-its London generally)

The Uni

On 2 campuses, Mile end campus IS NOT near Mile end tube....I found that out today
They don't give you maps-apparently you must instinctively know where your heading
Whitechapel is vvvvv rough, pissed people will come upto you and as the sign says : Muggings happen here! Beware of suspicious behaviour
There arnt nice food places-Nandos, Pizza Hut, Mc D etc..so stuff you wouldnt eat on a daily basis. No M+S no Tesco, Sainsburys. I'm gonna have to make packed lunch
We arnt allowed in to the Pathology builiding
But we can go into a Lab which we don't really need
People in my course are 5th years and already set on qualifying whereas it hasnt entered my mind yet-can be tricky to understand where they are coming from
Its not UCL (sob) I miss everyone! But im doing the ole meditation again so I will see some of the people on Thur and LINKS is Wed so it will be ok