Student Dining

As I said yesterday, the cafeteria on the third floor of the Fraser Building is often pretty full. If you look carefully you can see two kinds of chairs visible, the metallic white wireframe chairs and the black plastic round “chairs”. They’re actually surprisingly comfortable.

The room overlooking the dining area is the student conference rooms on the fourth floor.

You can find more posts about the Fraser Building here.

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Food For Thought

The second important function of the Fraser Building is to serve as a central cafeteria for students on campus, one of many on campus. The Fraser Building’s ‘Food For Thought’ is open from 8.30am for breakfast and from 11.30am to 2.30pm for lunch. As for offerings:

The Chef’s Theatre will offer meals cooked to order from the wok station, baked potatoes and baguettes will be filled to order from the Natural Choice counter, and you can expect good value daily offers, including a vegan choice, from Core Cuisine. Soup Station will have a home-made vegan option to enjoy in the restaurant or to take away.

There’s also a takeaway food station aptly named ‘Food To Go’, open from 8am until 7.30pm from Monday to Thursday and Friday until 4.30pm. It might one of a number of places to eat on campus, as I mentioned above, but because of it’s central location (entrance directly opposite the library’s main doors), the 400 seats inside are often packed to capacity. Or at the very least it’s always full when I’m trying to find a seat.

You can find more posts about the Fraser Building here.

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Service Desk

The major function of the Fraser Building is to incorporate all the University’s student services under one roof, combining the Careers Services, the International & Postgraduate Service, Recruitment, Admissions & Participation Service, the Registry, and the Student Services Enquiry Team.

Yes, there may usually be a queue to the service desks, but thankfully the services area is manned with an information desk, and the most common requests and forms (council tax exemption, student status, transcript, etc…) can be found, filled and submitted without queuing at all.

The Student Services website is here, and you can find more posts about the Fraser Building here.

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Student Services

The Fraser Building was a renovation of the original HUB Building, opened in the 1960s as a specimen of the architectural monstrosities of the era. Almost 50 years later, its one of the nicest buildings on campus (the nicest on campus if you believe the ultra scientific polling of this website’s poll for October), opened on January 13th 2009 by Sir William Kerr Fraser and Lady Marion Fraser.

Visitors to the building’s second floor are greeted with these characters from the University’s past, hiding behind them small meeting rooms for meeting with advisers. (If anyone can name them, you get extra credit.)

The Student Services website is here, and you can find more posts about the Fraser Building here.

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Welcome To The Fraser Building

The winner of the University beauty pageant held last month will be the focus of this whole week, starting today. So welcome to the newest building at the University of Glasgow, opened to the the University populace back at the beginning of 2009. I introduced the building back in the inaugural week of this blog back in June of this year, but I haven’t really delved into the building too much, besides showing the Medical Centre and the John Smith’s Bookshop within. That’s what I’ll do this week, show you the two most important bits about the Fraser Building: the cafeteria and the services floor.

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Someone Loves Books

It’s November and we’re going to start this month on a light-hearted note, especially after a night of Halloween celebrations (hope you had a great Halloween!).

I found this little bit of graffiti in the staircase of the Library tower. I forgot which floor, but I think it was around floors 8 and 10. Compared to the graffiti scratched or drawn into the walls of the bathrooms downstairs, this is quite the opposite.

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November 2009 Recap and Poll Results [GlasgowUniPhoto.com]

Happy Halloween!

First things first, the results of October’s poll on the nicest building at Glasgow University. From the very beginning of the poll to the bitter end, the Boyd Orr Building led the way, until, at the very last moment, the brand new Fraser Building ran past to a glorious victory, deservedly so. Below you’ll find the Top Ten results of the poll. I personally assumed the Wolfson Medical School Building would have been higher on the list, but No. 7 isn’t too bad.

To celebrate the Fraser Building’s victory in the poll I will feature the building for all of next week, starting Monday. In waiting for that, you can go ahead and cast your vote in November’s poll on finding out which is the UGLIEST building at the University of Glasgow. Below are thumbnail links to all the photos from the month of October.