Huh.

[haruka89]

So. Watched HP amd the Goblet of Fire tonight. Can someone please explain to me why they thought it necessary to display Beauxbatons as an all-girls and Durmstrang as an all-boys school? I'm pretty sure nothing like that was ever specified in the books and the HP Lexicon seems to agree with me, seeing as there's no mention of it there

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[haruka89]

If I remember correctly, the books never mention a male Beauybatons student as well as a female Durmstrang student. That only implies that there are none, but you´re right - it´s nowhere said explicitly.

I just looked it up.
About the students of Beauxbatons: 'that around a dozen boys and girls - ... - had emerged from the carriage and were now standing behind Madame Maxime.'
About Durmstrang isn't anything outright stated about gender that I could find, but there's a girl mentioned in the scene when Karkaroff leads his students out of the Great Hall after the schools arrived at Hogwarts that's probably a Durmstrang student.

I´m not quite sure which twin is which, but I know that one twin is in Ravenclaw and the other in Gryffindor

Padma was sorted into Ravenclaw in the books. Which is why I'm wondering where she was sorted in the movies.

tell me about it - just pullled an all-nighter with no actual reason - I hope that I can force my day-night rhythm back into a more ...intelligent pattern.

I once spent most of my summer holidays going to sleep between 5 and 8 a.m. *g* It's made more difficult for me because most of my lectures don't start until 10 a.m. And Mondays I don't have anything at all.

[runenklinge]

About the students of Beauxbatons: 'that around a dozen boys and girls - ... - had emerged from the carriage and were now standing behind Madame Maxime.'
About Durmstrang isn't anything outright stated about gender that I could find, but there's a girl mentioned in the scene when Karkaroff leads his students out of the Great Hall after the schools arrived at Hogwarts that's probably a Durmstrang student.

that proves, once again, that my memory is not to be trusted^^

It's made more difficult for me because most of my lectures don't start until 10 a.m. And Mondays I don't have anything at all.
I deliberately take the lectures that start at 8am in order to have something like a structured "normal" day - basically I try to cram everything in the time between 8am and 4pm - this time it didn´t work out, but I managed to liberate my friday of all lectures.

[haruka89]

I deliberately take the lectures that start at 8am in order to have something like a structured "normal" day - basically I try to cram everything in the time between 8am and 4pm - this time it didn´t work out, but I managed to liberate my friday of all lectures.

I don't really have that choice. All the lectures I have at the moment are mandatory and in every semester at the same time. I do have the advantage that almost no mandatory lectures/seminars/tutorials/whatever are later than 1 pm since we have so many labs. Here is the link to my time table, I'm in the 5. semester: http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/bm/studienplan.pdf

[runenklinge]

I don't really have that choice. All the lectures I have at the moment are mandatory and in every semester at the same time
I know, the whole bachelor thing takes away all the choices... the only choice I have is whether I take, for example, "Lecture for English Linguistics A" that is at monday 10am, or "Lecture for English Linguistics B" which is wednesday evening. The one good thing about my semester is that I´m almost exclusively in "Aufbaumodule" so I have (I counted) 32 veeery mandatory lectures/seminars I need to do in 4 semesters, not counting tutorials, lectures that aren´t mandatory on paper but are in reality, internships that last a whole semester, etc.
That makes 8 lectures/seminars per semester which doesn´t seem to be much.... but somehow, I´m only taking the absolutely mandatory stuff this semester and still have nearly 30 hours per week again -.-

One the one hand having a pre-structured schedule seems easy and uncomplicated, on the other hand, I do have some small liberties I wouldn´t want to miss.

Has your university been under siege, too?

[haruka89]

I think you, as someone who studies one of the Geisteswissenschaften, generally expects and maybe deserves more choices, but with chemistry it's another thing entirely, so I don't actually have that kind of problem with the system. Had I studied for the Diplom at the TU Berlin I'd've had a very similar schedule for the Grundstudium. There is just so many basics you have to know/hear before you graduate that there just isn't that much space for choices. Geisteswissenschaften just have that much more room to navigate and specialize that you chafe under the Bachelor/Master system, I think.

I can't speak for the other sciences, but I think that's similar to chemistry.

When you get to the master it's another thing entirely. I think I have one lecture I absolutely have to hear, a few I have to choose between and the rest is just a certain amount of point/lehrveranstaltungen in labs/non-science/science I have to do.