h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

President of Cleminson hall just over the road, when my Warden Dr Arishad Ghazzali died in March 2002. That year Cleminson was closed by the university so I spent my final year living in room 2 ground floor (next to Thwaite's former President Liam)

Say howdy to Dr Sands & Tomomi (Sp?) for me. Tell him Richard Healy says Howdy.

I'll say hi to Dr Sands for ya!

Did you know Clem is closing down? It's been open this year, but they're selling it next year (or so Dr Sands told us)!

Yes I know. I have my sources. It's a sad loss, I'm very glad I lived there but all things must end. To be honest I always suspected this as on the cards after Ghazz died.

I may yet be visting it sometime soon to see off my friends who are graduating this year. If I do I'll let you know.

Bejayyzuzzzzz Cyzaki! You brought a blast from the past there with Thwaite! I'm an old (very) alumni who spent Fresher year on Campus at Loten Hall, next to the newly-built Gulbenkian Centre. Do those architectural dinosaurs still remain?

Thanks (to all at Thwaite) for the mammaries....

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Wow! Loten Hall, as you call it, is now the Loten Building, home to the maths, sports science, and education departments! I (being a maths student) have spent a good few hours on floors 5, 6 and 7 (it's annoying when the lift breaks, ain't it!) as that's where all the lecturers have their offices now-a-days!

The Gulbenkian Centre is the drama dept, was is drama when you were there?

I spent my three years lurking around the Larkin building...

ahhh memories....

Feeling veeeerrrrrrrry old now...

Aye, I had me room on the 7th floor, great view of the cricket pitch, gym (and exams room!) and sports fields...groovy at night and particularly when the snow was a'falling. At the time, there were only three of us(residents) out of 150ish doing the Arts, as Loten Hall was home to the Legal Eagles...they tried to tempt me to the dark (and profitable) side, but I foolishly rejected their advances...all of them are either mega-wealthy, (early)retired, dead or guests of Her Majesty now...baahhhh

Indeed. The Gulbenkian had just opened, handy really, as I was doing a Drama/American Studies joint...so not far to toddle into lectures each day, lazy sod that I was/am. ...and the additional benefit that it was 3 staggers and only one up-chuck away from the Refectory Bar & Buttery as well (Cider @ 4p a pint!!). I well remember the then leader of the NUS on one of his rare visits to Hull, wafting out of the Refectory doors and going arse over tit on a pavement pizza (not mine)...his name - Jack Straw. Aaaaahhhh...happy days!

I gather the Music dept has now merged with Drama ...

In my second & third years I braved it into Cranbrook, then Springbank and the "real" world.

Aaaaahhhhh...hippy days!

It's a pity Loten isn't a Hall any more - it would be very handy for Asylum (did ya know the union building has a night club attached now?) rather than having to get buses/taxes or getting mugged down inglemire...

Asylum. ah yes the oft delayed Millenium Project. (when was it finally finished was it 2002 0r 2003? )

It was new in September when we arrived... how long had it been planned for?!

I seem to recall it first being touted early in my 2nd year. So let's see...I got there in 1999 and graduated in 2002 - there was massive construction going on at the union during most of my finals. (which I pretty much avoided since I spent a majority of my time in halls pouring over notes and journals for my dissertation.)

I am intimately familair with university beaurocracy so it comes as little surprise that it took a while to get organised.
(I however did manage to get to see Wheatus in the old union as was )


Clive 'cos I' just a teenage dirtbag baby, yeah!'

There's something being built next to the gym (where most of my exams happen to be) at the moment, I think it's a sports science lab or something, but they don't half make a racket when we're trying to do an exam!

Hmm yes the sports centre...I have many memories of standing in the wind tunnel on the left side waiting for the doors to open, triple checking my seating number and feverishly re-reading any last minute notes.

and building during exams? Yes that sounds like traditional university aforethought.

Only triple-checking your seat number? I check at least once every 10 seconds! It was 9 today, so that's okay, I could remember that, but I always get confused - was it 243 or 234? And how come my friends can remember both theirs and mine, when I can't even remember my own...

Got the student number down pat though! Can even say it in Japanese now

Hmmm must remember exam strategy I've got some of my own looming on the horizon next year.

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wowee this is random, an entry about a random building in hull uni..despite the fact ive lived in hull all my life and used to walk through the university every day to school (st marys about ten mins away) i dont know where thwaite hall is... i didnt even know where the middleton hall was until i had to play a concert there and realised i walked past it every day to schooll... *stupid me*

i went to see goldie at the asylum a few weeks ago... is it me or do they do the spanish inquisition before u go in..its spangly though.. but they wouldnt let me wear my hat!

Thwaite Hall isn't in the University grounds - it's about 30 minutes walk away.

And yes, they do do the spanish inquisition before you go into asylum! When my sister came to stay she wanted me to take her clubbing, but with her being only 16 at the time there was no way I was risking it!

And one of my lecturers makes everyone take off hats in her lectures...

ha! when I was there Asylum wasd a building site!

I visited when it was... It was brand new last year so it doesn't make you that old!