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| - Maybe I am biased because I very recently used this space for the very purpose that it exists: "convocating". But I like it a lot. Here is where I wore a hood with fur-trim, after all.
It really is a lovely building, as most are in King's College Circle, with a beautiful domed ceiling, rather comfy wooden seats and great acoustics. It is also easy to get lost in the further reaches of the balcony, because once I get up there, I have no idea which way is what. Which made finding my family on graduation day kind of a nightmare.
I came here for the first time to watch a Henry Rollins lecture when I was about, uh, 12? Everytime I stand outside, especially when it's lit up at night, in all its glory I feel a similar sense of awe. It was one of my first tastes of the university student and recent-grad world, inhabited by (presumably) cool, intellectual twenty-somethings. I remember feeling intimidation and longing to be on the other side of it.
So, now I'm on the other *other* side of it, and oddly enough, it was HERE where I very ceremonially exited/entered. It's all come full circle, it seems. In a building shaped like a circle. *whew*
...I must also tell you that a pivotal scene in Mean Girls was shot here, and I'm watching it *now*. Let the scholars rejoice!
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