 I loved my all of my trees at ANU. I really enjoyed my time there. I like the people, I like the weather, I like the campus. Like it's a very Australian campus, the kind of bushland, the trees. It's a really gorgeous space to be in. I think I was about 10 when I first drove past ANU on a visit to Canberra and I fell in love with the campus right then and I think my mum says that that's when I decided that I wanted to study at ANU. Only when I got here and I looked around and I saw what a fantastic institution it was, the people, the college life, the campus life, that I realised I'd made such an incredibly correct decision. Well some of the skills that you develop going to university remain with you for the rest of your life. I learned how to manage my time. I learned how to organise my work and I learned how important it was to have constructive relationships with your fellow students because you sure depend on them from time to time. I chased something just for the thrill of finding out about something new. I really honed my writing skills there. At first year particularly for me I discovered all these talents and things that I never knew about when I was in high school and that's actually ultimately the path that I think I'm probably going to go down. The ANU is to me an extremely significant institution. I mean of course ANU had a reputation for being a world-class institution. You know there's a lot of great minds that have come through this university, a lot of great thinkers and it embodies I think our aspirations for excellence in teaching and research. It's not just about what happens there within the walls of the university, it's about what happens afterwards and having your mind opened up to to certain things. You are literally surrounded by some of the world's greatest scholars. My office was next to John Brathway, it's Hillary's down the hallway like and everyone's so nice and they'll talk to you about you know anything and everything. I think it's location in our national capital and just across the lake from our major institution of democracy our national parliament mean that its national role is more than a symbol, it's a reality. You know we all feel really privileged to have studied there, it's a really fantastic experience. I'm 75 now and some of my closest friends are still the friends I made at university. You graduate from this university having made friends in all different degrees, all different areas of study and those people will then go on to become the leaders in their fields. You don't always know where you're going to end up but chances are there's going to be a new alumni wherever you're going.