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Michelle's Things

Monday, June 26, 2006

26-06-06 11.30am



The picture at the top is the west wing of Building 314. The west wing is the math department. The picture left of this typing is the stairwell leading up to the entry of building 314 and there is 42 steps exactly. The east wing in the sunlight is the computing department, building 314 is the "Department of Computing Science, Mathematics and Statistics" During our meeting it came up how perculiar it was that this building was number 314, because if you put a decimel in it you almost have pi. I will get more pictures of the uni soon. This is a fairly newly built department, Curtin has grown heaps in the last decade so they had to make new buildings, but the architect must have thought it was cool to have geometric shapes and stuff, so the entire campus has these new buildings sprouting up everywhere. I guess its in keeping with the fact its Western Australia's University of Technology (it started out as a mining school, for engineers and stuff)
I would imagine that Curtin uni, may well be smaller than the ones you get in Canada, but Curtin also has many campuses worldwide.

2 Comments:

  • At 9:01 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I'm very impressed. Why?

    I was once approached by a new student on my University campus who asked me, "Would you be able to point me to the math department."

    I looked her in the eye and matter of factly stated, "Orient yourself towards the ugliest building in campus -- that is the domain of the mathematicians". And you know, she found it.

    The fact of the matter is that on most University campuses, the math department/building is the ugliest of all the buildings. Which is why I'm so impressed yours is so nice.

    Was there any particular reason why you chose the University of Western Australia, other than geographical convenience?

    If I was to head to Australia for my doctoral studies, I would probably choose Melbourne. It's apparently quite a strong school, but a bit overcrowded.

     
  • At 9:01 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I also agree that your campus is very attractive, our math department is slightly hideous, but our engineering buliding is defiantly one of our prettier ones. I like the idea of the geometrical shapes on yours...very math-esque. :P

     

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