Jan 28 2011

Sidere Mens Eadem Mutato – Nothing ever changes at Uni

Today I learnt that nothing changes much at Sydney University, just as the motto* implies
My daughter Alex enrolled there today, 29 years after I did.

More food outlets, but same food, unfortunately.

Same Marxist Collective, and it appears the exact same people handing out pamphlets.

Same political posters – though now Labor are the baddies!

Same student union functions with the same attraction – cheap beer.

The Jacaranda tree remains remarkably healthy in the main quad – Tradition is that if you haven’t started studying by the time it blooms – you’re too late (Got that, Alex!)

And all paths still lead to Johns College.

I also learnt that you need the very useful SRC Counter Course Handbook **before** you enrol in your subject choices, not afterwards.
http://www.src.usyd.edu.au/sites/default/files/CCHB_2011.pdf

 

*Sidero Mens Eadem Mutato is the motto of Sydney University- “The constellations change, but the mind is the same” -ie “The traditions of the older universities of the Northern Hemisphere are continued here in the Southern.”