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Written by Chenglin Wu | Edited by Kiran Nayager
Medicine classes are typically held in the same cycle of rooms each term. Lectures in Patricia O’Shane Building, tutorials in Wallace Wurth G06/7 and Scenario Group Sessions (SGs) in Wallace Wurth SG Rooms (or IASB if you’re lucky). This week, The Jugular brings you a comprehensive review of all the places you might hope to find yourself (or not) across the course of your degree.
Sir John Clancy Auditorium
Usually only reserved for start-of-term lectures, it hosts the rare occasion of the whole cohort being under the same roof. Little known fact: Sir John Clancy wanted to design a theatre where the lecturer could hear the faintest whispers from the students so there may be less chattering. The design worked so perfectly that it inspired the design of the Sydney Opera House, and the meagre lecture hall was turned into an auditorium, where UNSW orchestras play to this day.
Rating: 7/10
Wallace Wurth LG03
A very cozy theatre, you can lock in at the front, or play Clash Royale® with your friends at the very back. LG03 seems to be used by MedSoc more than lecturers, to the point that this room is forever entangled in my mind with the smell of pizza. It’s never locked, so if you have 2 hours to kill between classes, it’s a good time to come in and play 1 hour and 59 minutes of Civilisation 6® with your friends after locking in for 3 whole Anki cards. Nonetheless, it would’ve been better if there were individual charging ports at each seat.
Rating: 6/10
Wallace Wurth G06
The prac room. This is the room where you take photos of histology labels knowing fully that they will sit peacefully in your camera roll, unopened, for the next 6 years. In G06, the seating plan is arranged by friend groups, and your proximity to the centre is directly proportional to how locked in you are. If you’re sitting near the end on your right hand side when you first enter the room, congratulations, you’re getting nothing done for the next 2 hours.
The charging port is easy to reach and numerous, and there’s a mic on each table that no one dares to use. This is a very versatile room, and a good deal of either histopath learning OR friend group bonding happens here (mutually exclusive).
Rating: 7/10
Wallace Wurth G08
The ITP room. The circular desk arrangement ironically makes it harder to talk to people not immediately next to you due to the size of the desks. There is a charging port for everyone, the chair is very comfy, and there is a microphone that never works. Most classes in this room go like this:
-0.5 hours: “I’ve done my pre-reading and I’ve watched my lectures, I’m gonna be so productive this ITP”
0 hours: socialise with friends outside
0.5 hours: locked in
1 hour: lecturer has delved into the first case (out of four) for an hour, and begins to speedrun the rest
1.5 hours: realise you’ve lost focus for the past 30 minutes, try to lock in again and give up
2 hours: class finishes
Rating: 5/10
Patricia O’Shane Building G02
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(Editor’s note: the building, not the person. Sincere apologies to this building’s namesake as unfortunately she is now permanently associated with the humiliating experience of climbing over 5 strangers to try and fight someone for the outlet.)
The most claustrophobic lecture theatre with ONE charging port to share with a dozen people. And worst of all the whole damn room is a tesla cage that blocks edruoam like that enchantment dome from Harry Potter. The seats are also extremely thin and uncomfortable – much like the seats from high school assemblies.
Rating: 1/10
CATS rooms
The rooms always feel very modernistic compared to the others, basically Wallace Wurth G06 if it were more square and green for some reason. In my memory every class in this room has been low-yield. Nothing particularly stands out except the med interview flashbacks.
Rating: 5/10
Wallace Wurth SG rooms
If you ask me what I miss most from First Year, it would be the lecture watch parties at Wallace Wurth, the ice breakers in these rooms, and the stories of other SGs passed around by friends. It was a time to discover yourself and break from high school naivete. Everything was new and exciting, and relationships began to form. It was an experience so detached yet akin to high school – we were still kids, talking about games and hang outs and society events, and dreaming of the future in the most outlandish ways.
At times I think of that freshly inaugurated First Year, sitting for the first time in his SG room. I wonder what he would think of me now – whether I’ve proven myself worthy of the dreams and ambitions he once held. While these rooms saw me zoning out of SG and fumbling with my ID card to open the doors, their sense of nostalgia makes them one of the best rooms for a medicine class.
Rating: 10/10
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