Handelshøyskolen BI (BI Norwegian Business School)

So this is the post about the campus of BI - which is short for Bedriftsøkonomisk Institutt and has got nothing to do with sexual orientation, just for the record! - I promised you before. As I had my first class today (or let's rather say: I went to a class for the first time today; I'm not actually taking Norwegian Culture & History, I'm just going there out of personal interest in the topic), I seized the opportunity and took some more photos during the break. Side remark: classes at BI are usually 3 hours long, so I hope breaks in between are the rule rather than the exception.

I didn't take any pictures from outside the building, so I'll just repost BI's photo:

As you might have realised, it's actually one gigantic building. When it was built in 2005 (I think), the idea was to literally have everything under a single roof. So there's lecture halls and rooms, study areas, chill-out areas, computer rooms, the library, the student service centre, the students' union, and the canteen all together. Additionally, they have a reception (feels a bit like entering a company), Starbucks and one other café, I think, a bar, a bookstore called Akademika - and even a gym! Another side remark: but it's a glass building, and I'm not so sure about the concept of being watched while working out...

Anyway, I took a few photos of extremely fancy aspects and views:

The lecture rooms have screens showing the next lecture, so you can't really be at the wrong room - unless they mess it up like for today's introduction session. :D

For the student services as well as IT service, international office, and exam office, you get to draw a number, including the number of waiting "customers" queuing before you, and then you can sit down and chill here instead of standing in line:

























Furthermore, BI claims to have the longest free-floating escalator in Europe or so...

... leading to the "Arch of Knowledge", a.k.a. the entrance to the library. The library is on the top two floors, so I guess the view is really nice there. (Yeah, it's actual books, which feels like a waste of books to me...)

By the way, the escalator only goes up, so for the way down, you get to take this fancy construct:

In order to study at BI, you shouldn't be afraid of heights, I assume...

Here's a snapshot of the fanciness from above:

And one of Kroa, the bar on campus where parts of the orientation week take place, maybe because it's sort of the cheapest place in Oslo to get drinks - but just maybe. ;)

Well, and since I don't really know my way around BI yet, I will probably go to the reception tomorrow and get a campus map there!

P.S. Don't expect many more photos of BI. I'm not sure I want to feel like a tourist in the school I'll be a student of for this semester. And I officially am a student there now, just collected my student ID after class!