By Katherine Smith (MA student 1990-92, Currently Public Relations Officer, Marketing & Communications Group) 
I had a carrel on the Baillieu third floor in the Research Collection from 1990-92. I was doing a Masters in English Language and Literature, and was researching medieval Irish and Welsh romances written around the turn of the twelfth century. In my carrel I had stashed a few books relevant to what I was studying: Yeat's Irish Myths and Legends, Nora Chadwick's The Celts, a copy of The Mabinogian - and I had a few pictures and inspiring quotations pinned up on the inside walls. All of which could be viewed through the little mesh grille by anyone happening to use the desk if I was not there.
One of the quotes I had pinned up was from John Rosenberg: "What ultimately determines what we do and become are those external accidents that are in accord with our inner nature".
Another from Lee Patterson: "If you do not have an explicit politics - an ideology - then one will certainly have you."
And St Augustine: "He who has more than he needs has what does not belong to him".
I also had a little cartoon picture of a shaggy wizard stirring a cauldron.
One day I found the attached poem folded and posted in my carrel. I have no idea who wrote it, but I loved the gesture, and have kept it in my journal along with the quotations and my little wizard, ever since.
Katherine Smith (MA!)