Tree in the Quad
Coveted yard, wake,
Cobbled-street-strollers unkempt
Echo dawn-dreams caught.
- Chih-Chun Chen (UCL Computer Science)
UCL's Mission
The primary goals
Academic excellence
And learning for all.
- Paula Speller (UCL Registry)
Indian Bean Tree Requiem
Feels like looks like death.
Was bean, old bean. Has been. Not.
Isn't that called life?
- Janina Chowaniec (UCL Surgery)
Examinations
Cold blustery day
Red brick walls quicken my step
to unwelcome warmth
- Yee Yen Goh (UCL Life Sciences)
Portico-shadowed,
I lounge upon the stone steps
Cradled by wisdom
- Harriet Cooper (UCL English)
We dance with photons
Explore the edge of our realm
From central London
Anthropic? I say,
The proof of the cosmos is
That we think in it.
- Anais Rassat (UCL Physics and Astronomy)
Bentham full of straw
In studious silence sits
For no head has he
Alumni
Bentham to Bowen
Eighteen Nobels and growing
Gandhi got going
- Tony Withstandley (UCL Union - Promotions & Marketing)
carelessly I grab
the naked Adam and Eve
on Medawar doors
- Beth Shaw (UCL French)
Who is he?
Roaming the cloisters,
Hunched over, trolley in tow;
A regular ghost.
- Rikki Weir (UCL Geography)
The Cruciform Building
Crisscross crucifix
Ghosts of the sick walk your floors
Teaching new healers
- Rina Chotai (UCL Medical School)
How UCL converted me to vegetarianism
(Addressed to Jeremy Bentham)
Sausage lost allure
Passing your corpse with entrails
In a jar each day.
- Dr Hugh Goodacre (UCL Economics)
From joint to old stock
The 'Godless Institution'
Still making new ground
- Tom Wipperman (UCL Development Planning Unit)
Lightning minds, thoughts blaze,
London's golden, beating heart,
Then, now and always.
- Mary Moloney (UCL Finance Division)
Kagoshima boys
top hats, frock coats, nervous eyes
pause on Gower Street
- Mary Collins (UCL Immunology)
Jeremy Bentham
Attends each annual meeting
Death's no handicap
- Tracey Holloway (UCL Library Services)
No height restrictions
UCL entry, for all
The ride of your life
- Nikunj Gupta (UCL Engineering/Computer Science)
Wind-turned autumn leaves.
Ideas for a better world.
Changing yet changeless.
- Alan Smith (UCL Space and Climate Physics)
Flaxman sits on plinth
Must have been surprised to find
Someone sculpted him
- Diana Herman (UCL Library Services)
The sea of faith ebbs:
The godless institution
Rises on the shore
- Mark Wainwright (UCL Constitution Unit )
Thinking lateral
university global
not Imperial
- John Kelsey (UCL Bartlett)
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