Postcode 3010: University of Melbourne
Yes, Melbourne University has its own postcode.
When I wasn't in a class or a lecture for my architecture degree, I probably would have been sitting in this location. Union Lawns, affectionately known as "Concrete Lawns", was a convenient meeting point at the northern end of the campus. It also happened to be adjacent to my home base - the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning. But my building, and the entire Faculty, no longer exists on these grounds, and this heritage-listed facade is all that's left. You can see it literally being the only thing left standing from what it used to be in this timelapse which spans over 4 years. The previous building was quite bland and awkward and impractical, so our tutors frequently joked that the reason we had the ugliest building on campus was so we knew how NOT to design a building.
Even though I had a difficult time while studying here for 4 years, it does make me sad that my building is gone and that I have no association to the new one whatsoever. In fact, by the time I graduated, my course didn't even exist anymore. The sadness is similar to the feeling you get when your family move to a new house after you've already moved out.
All of a sudden, the place that housed all of your memories is no longer accessible and there are new ones being made without you.
All of a sudden, someone else knows a place better than you do, and even though you were in the clan before most of the others, you have become the guest.
You have become a visitor.
You are the foreigner.