Visiting three Universities in Birmingham, England/Carlos
Pueblo
One morning
I was marching along the city canal and found a nice bank with
pretty garden
and buildings. It is the campus of Ashton University, a complete
university
with all kinds of colleges including the engineering, medical school,
and law
school, etc. Upon entering the campus, I saw a sign of Birmingham
City
University on the other end and a conservatory, Mathew Boulton Campus
of the
Birmingham Metropolitan College. If I may, I can categorize the City
University
is popular, Aston is selective, University of Birmingham is prestige,
while Mathew
Boulton is specialized. I visited the UB last year and was very
impressed.
The campus is outside of Birmingham city limit.
I have
always admired the university in my life. Almost all nations pay attention
to their
high education and the university produces leaders of their society. Almost
every place
where I visit, I always put an effort to visit the university campus. I
have very
much regret that I have not utilized my opportunity to study while at
school. Ashton
campus is not as large as UB; however, it is very pretty and organized.
The medical
school is not as big as I imagine; however, there is a brain center and
Dental school
and pharmacy school, etc. The engineering academy is right by the canal.
After
visiting the new student center, I walked toward the BCU. Last year, I met a
pretty
Chinese young lady, Yang Ming of Cheng Chou city, Henan, on a train from
Oxford to
Birmingham. I believed that she returned to BCU for graduation commencement
of her M.S.
degree. I adopted her as my daughter. There are some Chinese students
studying at
that campus.
A reception
lady at Ashton student center introduced me about these three universities;
therefore, I
had some ideas of the Ashton Triangle. It is on a higher ground and I can
see Birmingham
downtown. I walked back to the canal through an old ruined area with
some brick
buildings which the city intended to re-innovated. After just one exit, I got
on
to streets
of old quarter of the city to the New Street Interchange. The old quarter is
like
some of the
old town Houston with many Eastern European eateries.
Of course, I
dropped by the Bull Ring Market for my supply.
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