personal ramblings

3 weeks into vacation from uni, and I’m already missing that damn place. Not really the fact that I have to get up at 5 am in order to arrive at the lectures in time, but.. you know, just going there, visiting the lectures, learn interesting stuff (because now I’m at this stage when I can choose which lectures to attend), meeting colleagues.. I’ve kinda grown to like it, and I’m so not looking foward to summer holidays, because.. no university for 3 months? Blah.

This semester, I’ve decided to enroll to the USI (Universitäts Sport Institut.. basically a place where you can do various sports activities for a low fee, and it’s especially for students or for people working at the university). I’ll attend Iaido classes, and I’m really really looking forward to it. But the real hassle actually began when I tried to enroll into this class, because there is the main USI where you can enroll for all sport courses, and on that particular day (it was the first day to enroll yourself) about 300 other students also wanted to make sure they got into their courses. So I spent about one hour waiting in a very long line, and said line continued outside of the building. And since it was raining that day.. yeah you get the image. Not fun. >_> But I survived, and the course only costs €29 for the whole semester. Yeah, I like my USI, I think from now on I’ll attend a class every semester. Mwah.

Concerning university, there is also a sort of.. life alternating (?) decision I’ve made earlier this week. Originally, I was planning on continuing to study genetics once I passed the first – I still don’t know how to call it – segment. But in order to do that, you have to have done a particular laboratory course called Chemische Übungen. There are two laboratory courses, Chemische Übungen I and Chemische Übungen II, which are credited with 8 hours/semester. At the biological institute, you can only do both of them together, and the professor who is in charge of them is a huge dickhead. If he doesn’t like you, chances to pass that course diminish to 0,0000000001%. And that’s still an optimistic number. Lucky for us (aka me and some friends), we could avoid those courses and do similar ones at the TU (Technical University). The prof was cool, very cool, the course itself was fun, albeit sometimes very straining (we did them during the summer semester, in a smallish, sticky and very hot laboratory where we couldn’t open the doors to let some fresh air in because fellow students immediately would complain that their burners went out if you dared to open them). Those, however, were only credited with 4 hours/semester. And recently ago, I learned that the person who is in charge of the genetics departement only allows people into the genetic study if they’d done the laboratory courses which are credited with 8 hours/semester. And since there is no chance in hell that I’ll do the courses with the dickhead and do the chemistry exam again (also did that one at the TU).. well, I’m sure you can figure out the rest.

Lucky for me though, I’ve recently discovered another field of study which interests me, namely anthropology. So I’m thinking about continuing that one once I’m finished, but also do some genetic lectures. But I’d graduate as an anthropologist, which is.. well, not a geneticist. No, d’uh.

Soooo… list altering changes indeed. Lalala, this entry really proved why the blog is called personal ramblings.