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

Did you go to Warwick Uni?

Yup. Started in '97, left in 2000. Still go there Wednesday afternoon for the Sci-Fi & Fantasy society games evenings.
Did you go, too, then?

I did! I was there a bit before you though! 92 - 95 and I read History.

So what is the old place like then?

Umm.. The Mandela (or whatever it was in your day) is now... something else. They change the name practically every other year.
A new union building has gone up, and the old one has had some of its rooms turned into a new eatery. A new conference building has gone up over the road. Londis is now a pharmacy, and there's a big costcutter in the new union building. There still isn't enough storage space for society stuff, there is still a shortage of soc meeting rooms. A medical school has been built on Gibbet Hill, where the car park was.

Other than that, not a lot has changed.

I do like the comfy new lounge in the new union building tho', and they serve nice small meals there.

When I was there they tried to rename the Mandela 'Lynam's Lounge' but the few students who weren't busy being apathetic complained.

It later became Lynam's Lounge.
Oh, the irony. It's now The Graduate, I think.

And Zippy's?

Still Zippy's, I think. Although that may have changed by later today.

why? why?

Out of contrariness. Most of the eating places have been renamed, as has the Mandella, many of the rooms have been renamed. I think it's an off-shoot of the rebranding craze that has business in its grip currently.

Yesterday when I tried to park at Warwick practically the whole campus had been coned off for coach drop-offs for the open day. What with the torrential rain and all, it was most vexing.

God I remember the parking problems... and the chronic nature of the other student's driving! My car often came out of the car park with a new dent courtesy of another undergrad!!

At least if you park in 7 on a regular basis you really _learn_ how to squeeze into a narrow space.

And you develop an urge to destroy any who ignore the one-way system.

What one way system?

Car park 7 has a one-way system, which people abuse if they see a space in the wrong direction. And of course, when there's the rush after an event at the Arts Centre has finished its every man for himself.

Oooh which one is 7 - is that the multistory a little way down from senate house?

Yup. That's the one. Spaces so small a mini has to reverse in. The top of it becomes lethal in icy conditions.

oh god yes, you would rather park any where then the top floor in the depths of winter!

Actually that was where my car picked up most of its dents!

While I was there they put an anti-pass-back mechanism on the barrier, so when someone couldn't get out of the car park, someone else helped them and the good Samaritan was trapped in the carpark for another 30 minutes...

That is hilarious!

So have they built the sports pitches behind Hurst and Redfern yet?

Dunno. Never went anywhere near them. I lived at home and drove in. I think I got a better deal than my buddies who got rules in the Stalags...