Pretty, But Not Practical
August 4th, 2007 by aizatto
So I’ve been attending class in the new Monash campus for the past few weeks. A new larger campus for the growing number of Monash students.
Sadly there are some problems. Some deeply rooted problems with the campus.
Here are three:
The Cafeteria
The celestial place were dining is sacred has some serious faults. First is the size, cramped up into a small section of the campus no bigger than one or two of the class rooms combined. Also has a very very limited selection of food. Oh yeah? Remember how I said “growing number” of students. Well the cafeteria at its current
Food is also more expensive.
Can’t go anywhere else for food. Medan/Sunway Campus is like a kilometer away. Its not even an option you can consider as you may either you die of the hot sun, or get drenched in the rain.
Car park
Every Malaysian family has like two or three cars, and the probability of someone driving to class is very very high. So why did they make it an open car park? You can’t even park there at certain hours of the day. Its jammed pack to the max. Should have made it a few stories or something, but now they have to live with it I guess.
Oh yeah…”growing number” of students…hmmm. No future planning it seems.
Open Air
Don’t know how to describe it, but the campus is very open, in the sense that the buildings aren’t crampped together, and they are separated by a few dozen meters. Bridges also between the various buildings, and you even can go on to the top of one building for a panoramic view of Sunway.
The problem? Rain.
To quickly get to one building to another you are going to have to get wet when it rains. There are overhanging roofs, but they don’t cover each other so you will get wet eventually.
There are shaded bridges, but its still a bottleneck.
Wireless Access
Okay this problem may be solved later on, but the only available place to get wireless access is from the First Floor Library, go to the 2nd or 3rd floor and it wont work. Anywhere else in the campus, and also nothing. Not even in the cafeteria. Definitely not cool.
Others
I heard the common room is smaller, though I don’t even go there.
Interesting things? Lecture theaters are underground. No cellphone reception.
But that would be pointless, they already have the solution. The biggest hurdle would be the different domain. I generally deal with scripting, and webdesign so I’ve had to learn up threading and network design. Which is all cool. 
