Home is a place where you feel really safe and know everyone around you.
Home is a place where I can unwind and be myself.
I love my family, but being at college is like being part of an even bigger family.
There's always someone to chat to no matter what time it is.
TKC for me in two words: friendship, fun.
I chose to live on campus because there's a community here and and I’m right in the centre of it.
The university has a lot of amazing facilities.
The library is great for studying in.
UNSW has many international students and there's always cultural events going on.
I'm a horrible cook so it's great having my meals prepared for me.
Coming off a farm at Goulburn to Sydney in 1978, well, what an experience.
Country boy thrown into the deep end. But this college atmosphere really made it for me.
It was just such a fantastic place to meet friends
and to really live in what is a uniquely beautiful environment.
Being in this beautiful hall today brings it all back to me,
just really terrific dinners celebrating great conquests in the sporting field,
our valedictory dinners, were just... you had to be there to sort of see the humour and the wit going on.
The University of New South Wales gave me the opportunity to earn a degree,
experience college life and really make me a much more worldy person.
It was just the best time of my life. I actually played for the Wallabies from this university.
I made the Wallabies from second division, which was a real effort in its day.
And they were really great times with the rugby club. I've got friends for life
from not only rugby, but also the colleges and the university in general.
I've been on their Foundation fifteen years, I really believe people should give back to the university
and for me it was such a wonderful experience - I'm giving back.
I've been associated with UNSW for well over fifty years. It all started just over here at Basser College.
I first came to UNSW when the university was only 9 years old.
Since then, I came through a Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree,
I was a tutor at UNSW, I went on to be a Professor, Head of the School of Economics,
Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Economics and then most marvellously,
Vice Chancellor of this university for ten years.
It's come at enormous distance and it's been just fantastic being part of that journey.
One of the best things about living in college is being able to rub shoulders,
living so close with students coming in from Asia. They had challenges, rice bubbles as I recall,
we had challenges, how to use chopsticks. We helped each other master both those challenges.
And now as I spend much of my time in Asia, I link up with them.
I know people who are in the cabinet in Singapore, people in government in Hong Kong,
senior business people right through the region.
One of the strengths of any university is its alumni base.
And as Australia heads into the Asian century, those alumni are going to serve Australia well,
and of course they will do very well for the university.
It's wonderful seeing a new batch of shiny graduates and to think that their successors coming in next year
will be able to move into student accommodation which is as good as any I've seen in the world.
Basser was wonderful and the memories are certainly profound, but the new accommodation is going to be even better.
The new buildings look fantastic.
It's going to be a great place for students to live in the future.
I'm from Dubai and I've got mates in Wales and South Africa who have signed up so I guess
we're going to do like a mini United Nations over here.
What I love about college is that the co-curricula life is entirely run by students.
The uni has really listened to what we want and it has really shown in the new designs.
We're going to have the best views in Sydney!
It's going to be a home away from home.
Shotgun - an ensuite room!
The buildings look really great, but what really makes college are the people who are in it
and having a bigger network should be really exciting.
We're loud and proud at Baxter. We've always had the most pride, so we're still going to be a force to be reckoned with.
Goldstein's always been the best college and now we're double the size.
In the new colleges, Basser's going to be bigger and better.