I'm a university student and very happy about it. :D
Where to start?
Maybe with the fact, that I'm so incredibly happy, and couldn't feel more at home at the uni of Helsinki. Last week was only orientation, when we got to know the university (tried out all the different eating places, checked out the libraries and all other things that might be useful), each other, and decided what courses to take and just.. general stuff.
We're 14 freshmen; 6 are studying Baltic languages and the rest are Southern & Western Slavonic languages (we'e mostly referred as just slavists). We're really a strange bunch: some are just out of high school, some have another degree already, there's 2 men who already have children.. But what we all have in common is this strange love/obsession for the Balkans, Baltics and "eastern central europe" or whatever it should be called in English.
So, all in all, I feel like I've come home. Like I've fund my place. Like the next 5 years will be the best of my life. And I'm so happy, happy, happy.
I had my first lecture yesterday; 3 hours of "literature science" (I bet this has a smarter, English name as well, but I have no idea what it is), which is a compulsory class. There's not too many of those, luckily; only linguistics and then some language classes (Swedish, Finnish and a foreign language other than Serbian). In this first period/quarter I have Serbian (taking it with the 2nd year students.. eek), introduction to south-eastern european studies, Estonian (beginner's), Estonian society, history and culture and linguistics & literature science. Maybe I will still pick up another course if I find something interesting which fits my schedule.
So yeah, life's good!