The University of Adelaide

A performance of The Men of Verona a notable Shakespearian Play leaf to go in to the Cloisters Theatre at The University of Adelaide. Although the performance was way outside what I expected I could thoroughly recommend attending one of the sessions in the current season.
The performance is highly entertaining with fun, laughter and irony evident throughout the performance.
Jeans, leather and mobile phones are all part of surprise with in the action so be prepared. N
The little Cloisters Theatre is an absolute delight! It is small and cosy making the audience feel very much part of the action.
If you are able to find the time this is certainly worth the effort. You will be rewarded with the level of entertainment.

What more can I say about this place that hasn’t already been said. At the end of the day, it’s the place I am going to forge a future for myself and while I spent years hating uniforms back in high school (back a while ago…) I have a sense of pride going to this Uni and find myself buying the Uni jumpers and t-​shirts. Needless to say, I am happy here.

Why do people bag Adelaide so much? Place rules man.
Cruising along North Terrace on a sunny day and the damn Uni blew the pants off me with its open leafy green-​y sandstone-​y splendour. Clusters of buildings have no right to be this pretty, man. It made the sky seem bluer somehow, that’s how attractive it is. I’m getting dangerously close to poetry here (which would see my Man Card revoked) but you get the idea.
The only thing that douches up the whole scene is the students. For the love of god kid pull up those pants. And faux-​silk Fred Flintstone boxers? This is how assaults happen.

I’m in my 3^rd year at UofA and I have to say that it is a great University. Easily the best in SA. Some critiques I have are that they have been slow to provide recycling bins around campus. I participated in an ‘ecoversity’ internship last year and their methods of collecting data were flawed. They believed that students didn’t know how to recycle let alone compost, hence the colourful bins that there are not enough of. I would like to see some compost bins around campus or at least in the dining areas. I really want a student organic vegetable garden. These are 2 things that I experienced while on exchange that really made it seem that UofA was falling behind in terms of basic environmental sustainability. Bicycle parking is also terrible, plenty of room for improvement. They are starting to put up solar panels and build energy efficient buildings but they need to get some basic things right like changing student behaviours.

I attended The University of Adelaide for 4 years and there were a many good and bad things that I experienced during my time there that I will share with you. First of all, the best thing about the University of Adelaide is their grounds and the beautiful old buildings. Coupled with the brand new multimillion dollar Hub Central learning centre, the university can now boast some ultra modern and decadently old facilities that make attending the campus a pleasure.
Having said this, as a Humanities student, University of Adelaide is not really the best place. There isn’t a focus on the arts and placements are lacking which is vital when looking to get a job in the real world. Their strengths lie in Engineering, Law, Medicine and the Sciences/​Maths so if that is what you are in to, then definitely go for it. As far as I know, the University isn’t any more expensive than any of the others but I believe offers a better learning environment. Maybe aside from Magill Campus as UniSA which is built along a creek and very pretty, it is FAR better looking than the brick and render madness that is every other UniSA campus.

02/​01/​2012
Now, my comprehensive list of reviews in Unilocal wouldn’t feel complete or right, if I didn’t include the University of Adelaide.
When I read through the list of TERs, «Am I good enough for this place…»
If you somehow managed to get in, I would like to say a big congratulations to you, because the TER scores here are extremely high to obtain.
The first week of your first year at University is very exciting. When you go to Orientation Week lectures, you will hear a lot of «attend as many lectures, study, ask staff questions if you’re lost» at the beginning. After the first few easygoing weeks (depends on the individual student of course), you will find yourself addicted to studying lecture powerpoint presentation handouts and taking notes.
But after four years here, the big question you ask yourself is: Was all that time and stressful effort here worth it?
So to start off this controversial debate, and to be academically balanced, there are several negatives:
–It’s bloody hard to get into, in the first place (a lot of Year 12 students will agree with me here)
–At the start of your first year, you will be very uncomfortable as you attempt to adapt yourself to your new surroundings.
–Somewhere in the middle of first year, one or more of your tutors will passionately participate in a «labour dispute» protest.
–The workload and exams are all extremely stressful experiences for EVERYONE.
–I gave it 4 stars, because I wish I had the luck of going to an American University like Berkeley or UCLA!!!
–You’re left with a very expensive HECS DEBT to pay off later on (we are very very lucky to be living in a country where the Australian Government has an Education Loan system)
–if you’re a good student, you’ll eventually suffer from insomnia as a result of all those all-​nighters that you pulled off, you’ll be catching the early 7am bus for 8am Biology lectures, you will be heading into campus ALMOST everyday as a result of your packed timetable…
–if you do a broad degree like I did, you will find it hard to make lifelong friends, as the broad range of curriculum will make each timetable personalised and quite different to your new «friends». 90% of these people will disappear into thin air after graduation.
–there will be less than a handful people who will remember you or will keep in touch with you after graduation…
Yet, there are some obvious massive benefits/​positives about what I gained from being here full-​time over 4 years:
–Graduation Day of course! I got a high GPA, which I was very happy about, and got into a really good Postgraduate course at a prestigious University after graduation.
–There are a lot of hot-​looking girls walking around here!!! But remember, don’t judge a book by it’s cover ;)
–The chances of finding a long-​term girlfriend here is very high! Trust me :)
–This was the first and thus is the oldest University in all of South Australia, so they’ve had more time to figure out what works and what doesn’t, so to speak.
–I admire intelligence and well-​spoken Australian citizens, so I must say that there were Professors and Lecturers here that were SO DAMN GOOD to listen to and learn from.
–Your tutors and lecturers do a very good job of reminding you about deadlines.
–If you paid enough attention, and put in the effort to go to the classes, you might luckily experience a life-​changing moment. For example, there were moments when a Professor said something in class, and I never forgot it. One well-​spoken sentence changed my life for the better.
–You will learn in cool subjects like ‘Politics’, that you can’t be too overly enthusiastic about one viewpoint and think that you’re «the best», because the other sides have strong arguments also. In other words, you become more tolerant of different ways of thinking and different cultures.
–One of the best things I learnt being here was in my first year ‘Astronomy’ textbook: For example, in the older times, everyone thought the sun and Universe looked and moved in one certain way, but it didn’t mean they were scientifically correct or factual. There is always going to be someone later on (like Galileo, Newton) that will discover something new and remarkable that will shatter all current existing theories or common thinking.
–The jobs I do after my University degree are so much easier going, fun, satisfying, better and «cooler» than the jobs I did during high school. I’m lucky to have a career that I actually enjoy doing everyday!
–Your newfound knowledge will make a difference to one or more people’s lives (i.e., the «Life Impact» of University of Adelaide).
–I still like to visit or walk through here every once in a while, because it makes me appreciate all the hard work I did, in order to experience a beautiful campus like this.
I can’t get you outta my head, University of Adelaide!
Thanks to you, this is my longest review!
As Jordan Sparks sang, you have permanently marked yourself in my brain «Like a Tattoo».

An Adelaide icon! I worked at the Uni for a while and loved every minute of being on its campus.
What I love about the Uni (apart from Hogwart’s Hall also known as Bonython Hall) is that it is intrinsically intertwined with the history of Adelaide as a city, founded by the generosity of a Scottish settler who made his fortune in the state and decided to give something back back in the good old days (AKA 1874).
So it comes as no surprise that the original buildings are all sandstone and Oxfordian in inspiration — it was built by Brits and after the British model. Y’know, makes sense. But the uni has come far since those days and now offers a huge range of well-​regarded courses, from Medicine and Science to a great Arts program — as well as lots of sparkly new buildings.
It’s a huge international university, with special links to Malaysia and KL where it has had an exchange program for over 50 years, introducing some of the first Malaysian students to study in Oz in the 1950’s.
The campus itself is in one of the prettiest parts of the city, on stately North Terrace, with lots of greenery and always buzzing. While we’ll never be a university town it’s a lovely reminder of the city of Adelaide’s past and offers a well-​regarded place to study.

The University of Adelaide, founded in 1874, is Adelaides oldest university, the third oldest university in Australia and a proud member of the Group of Eight (a coalition of Australia’s leading teriary institutions).
Consequentially it is also Adelaide’s snobbiest university, and propagates a more antiquitarian approach to tertiary education than the more modern institutions of Flinders and UniSA.
Despite this, Adelaide does offer a number of good courses and particularly excells in the fields of science engineering and medicine.
The grounds are quite appealing by Adelaide’s standards, but perhaps less so by those from interstate or overseas. Although not particularly large, the campus extends from the banks of the river torrens to North Terrace. There are many grassed areas and buildings displaying Gothic Revival style architecture at the North Terrace side of the campus.
There have been recent developments to parts of the university which have a more slick, modern glass and steel aesthetic. This combined with the concrete monstosities of the 1950’s (Although the Napier building is considered by some to be the height of 1950’s contemporary design) gives a severely inconsistent archietectural aesthetic, although this jumble of the ages is what I find most appealing about it. It shows that the University is now naturally evolving its own identity, despite its initial attempt to borrow its cultural identity from those prexisting eminent universities in England.
The University offers a number of sporting and other social clubs, has a university bar at which good live music is often on show, and has a student led publication On Dit, which has at times been of interest.