University buildings

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Students' guide

Buildings of the university

All the info you need to orient yourself in the University of Lille!

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Living side

Dorms and apartments

Students

As a student, you can request a bed in dorms you will share with other students. Inside the dorm, you will have a bed, a bedside table, a chest of drawers, and a desk.

Faculty

Members of the faculty are also entitled to apartments inside the walls of the university. See Faculty's apartments for more details.

Students' dorms are kept in buildings separate from the faculty so that you can fully relax and sometimes—or often—get rowdy. Wards keeping the noise in keeps the disturbance to a minimum.
Students or faculty who do not have the means to pay for those dorms have to stay in the rest of the city instead. Those whose luxury expectations are not met by our humble dorms can also elect to rent—or even buy—a house in the city.

Dinning halls

Students
Three meals are served every day in the dinning halls, both for students and faculty members. As students, you will have to serve yourselves and eat at big tables in large halls.
The menu served is the same for everyone, with only a limited choice available, but it changes every day.

Faculty members
Meanwhile, faculty members are able to eat in a separate halls so that they can have a bit more calm. They are served the same choice of dishes directly at their table.
They can also book smaller rooms to dine privately when receiving guests or discussing confidential topics. In that case, they can order specific dishes, provided that enough notice is given to the cooking staff.

Menu

For breakfast: a buffet of different types of breads, viennoiseries, pastries, cheeses and fruits.

For lunch and dinner:

one of 3 small starters (a soup, a vegetable salad, or something else such as cheese puff),

a choice of 3 main dish (each with 1/3 of the plate filled with vegetable, 1/3 starch and 1/3 protein),

a piece of bread and a cheese,

one of 3 desserts are available (a fruit, a yoghurt, a cake).

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Teaching side

Lecturing theatres

Lectures all take place in classic theatres of different sizes, with rows of seats overlooking a central area where the lecturer stands. This area also has a very wide desk where the lecturer can lay out several pages of notes. They also have a series of blackboard that are hanged on top of each over and that can be slid up or down.

Practical

Depending on each field of study, different practical rooms are made available.

Runes
Your rune practical will take place in windowless rooms to avoid interference. The ground is made of a single stone slab on which you can draw with chalk and that can be cleaned easily. There is a cupboard on one side with a reserve of chalks and drawing tools, as well as cleaning materials.
You will have to sit on the ground next to the area where you draw. In some classroom, squares have been drawn in chalk to indicate each student's own working area, and those are not cleaned regularly.

Forging
Your forging practical will obviously take place in a forge. Each forge has several fireplaces that can each work as an independent working area for a group of students.
They all have several working benches with tools and anvils, and a hollow slab of stone with running water circle around the classroom so that each student can access them.
Forge can only be entered when a teacher is present, and if you want independent practice time you will have to arrange it with them.

Duelling
You will practice swordplay and magical duelling in a large sanded courtyard equipped with powerful wards to keep the magic from damaging the rest of the university. There are nearby changing and shower rooms, as well as storage rooms for the swords, shields and other equipment.
The courtyard should only be used under the supervision of a duelling instructor such as M. Sagette. To use it outside of your dedicated class time, see with one of them to book a practice spot.

Library

All students and faculty members can access a huge library with all the up-to-dates textbooks and academic literature, not only from France but also from several other European countries, in particular, England, Scotland, Ireland, Prussia, Austria, Spain, Belgium, Norway, and Sweden.
As students, you will have to work on the desks placed between the bookshelves, so keep the disturbance to a minimum to let your comrades work in peace. Only faculty members can book separate rooms, but if you earn the favour of one of your teachers, you might be invited to join them.

Faculty offices

The faculty's offices are grouped by departments, with a list of their occupants available at the entrance of each building so that you can find your teachers easily. Students are encouraged to visit them during working hours when they have any questions or troubles with assignments.
Not all offices will be big enough for such chat, and you may be required to relocate to an empty classroom or the library. Indeed, office size depends on their occupant's seniority and prestige, with junior faculty members sharing offices together. Smaller offices only have room for a coat hanger, large desk, a cupboard for student files, and a bookshelves or professional reference manuals. Meanwhile, senior professors have a seating areas where they can entertain guests and students.

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Others

Administration

The university has a section dedicated to its administration, with the offices of the president, his secretary and their staff.
It also has formal reception rooms and a big formal theatre for receiving important politicians like His Majesty and the royal court.
Nearby, a huge hall is also used for addressing the entire student population at the same time.
As a student, you better avoid this area unless explicitly invited.

Army

The University of Lille adjoins the Citadel, which is the army's headquarters in Lille. Both share the same defensive ward system, with doors allowing circulation between both.
Small guard boxes are located at each entrance of the university, so that on-duty soldiers can watch over who enters and leaves the university.
Students are not typically allowed to wander into the Citadel. Treat each soldier with respect regardless of their rank, as all civilians are their inferiors.

Ornamental

The buildings of the university are separated by little squares with ornamental flowers and inner courtyards containing fountains and statues of past important people from Lille.
There is also a leisure parc where you can walk or relax or where some practicals can take place.
All those spaces are there for you to enjoy freely, and you are expected to avoid damaging them with pranks, duelling, or quarrels or you will get in troubles.