University of Essex

We went to Colchester and walked from the town centre to the University of Essex. Passing by rows of stores and houses, there are always nice new discoveries, such as old church and school.

It was a nice walk, it took about an hour on foot to get the university. The University's motto is "Thought the harder, heart the keener", which is came from the Anglo-Saxon poem "The Battle of Maldon". The university has a wide range of subjects as the same as other universities, including the fields of human rights, law and government. Remarkable buildings are the black student residence towers. Each building has a name like "William Morris" and "Tawney",  which came from English famous literary figures. My following picture present nothing particularly special, but these buildings are distinct, because there aren't high buildings around here, you can see these from the train window, as if images of Darth Vader...

The Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall is a modern design building, which opened in 2006. It is said the Prince Charles linkened this building to "a dustbin".

Visiting a university is interesting. There are many students from around the world, they speak accented English, live their youth, enjoy and study. The atomosphere makes me want to be back in my 20's again. If I studied here, I might have a different life and view...