Ruperto Carola
Life tends to be going into direction you never planned or even considered. It's actually quite funny sometimes.
Here I was, writing 18 (!) applications for different universities, study courses, programs... I had a favorite, a Plan A. The HH-University, the university of Hamburg. Funny as life can be I got accepted at 17 of 18 universities and only HH University rejected me. Speak of Irony... ^^
So I waited some, were in a generally bad mood, annoyed everyone around. Waited some because I was in position 16 on the waiting list. Whatever.
Today I said fuck it.
I matriculated at the Ruperto Carola in Heidelberg this morning. I'm gonna go south instead of north, I'm gonna live near the "mountains" and the rivers, not the sea. One day I'll go back to the sea. It's something you can't separate me from for too long.
Actually, the Ruperto Carola is the better university, at least it's got higher rankings and all that shit, not that I really care about it.
It's funny to think that it was founded before America was discovered. So, yes, it is very very old. The city is even older, a beautiful little thing in the Rhine/Neckar triangle, two rivers around there. Heidelberg has about 150 000 inhabitants, it's a fairly small city, and over 20% of it are students of the Ruperto Carola or one of the surrounding specialized colleges and universities of applied sciences. It also has a Kendo and Iaido association, something that influenced my decision to go there a lot.
I'm gonna study East Asia Studies with a focus on Japan and Computer Linguistics. I'm allowed to start my Japanese classes with the third semester, or, how you'd call it, the sophomores. I told Jule that I'll have to "sit down on my ass" as we say in German and to start seriously studying because I'm gonna need a scholarship for the 6-12 months I'll have to study in Japan. She actually laughed at me. I admit it, I was like the laziest ass in my entire grade back in high school and somehow still managed to get fairly good grades. She thinks I don't even know how to study, and well, she's not all that wrong. So if you have some great advice about how to study, tell me.
Ah, well, whatever.
I'm kind o really excited about the whole deal.
I'll probably be staying at the dorm since it's cheaper than sharing a flat somewhere in Heidelberg. Plus, the dorms are on the campus. The Ruperto Carola has an open campus, actually, meaning the university is located right in the city center.
It'll be so weird to be "back in school"... I've spend three years working and having the life of a pretty average person, I'm kind of excited to be someone else again. It'll be weird because most of the students in my year will be a lot younger than I am. Maybe. I don't really know.
This is Heidelberg by the way:
If you ever consider studying in Germany, the Ruperto Carola is a really good choice btw, it has awesome exchange programs and a lot of study courses that are taught in English. :-P (read: feel free to visit any time)
Here I was, writing 18 (!) applications for different universities, study courses, programs... I had a favorite, a Plan A. The HH-University, the university of Hamburg. Funny as life can be I got accepted at 17 of 18 universities and only HH University rejected me. Speak of Irony... ^^
So I waited some, were in a generally bad mood, annoyed everyone around. Waited some because I was in position 16 on the waiting list. Whatever.
Today I said fuck it.
I matriculated at the Ruperto Carola in Heidelberg this morning. I'm gonna go south instead of north, I'm gonna live near the "mountains" and the rivers, not the sea. One day I'll go back to the sea. It's something you can't separate me from for too long.
Actually, the Ruperto Carola is the better university, at least it's got higher rankings and all that shit, not that I really care about it.
It's funny to think that it was founded before America was discovered. So, yes, it is very very old. The city is even older, a beautiful little thing in the Rhine/Neckar triangle, two rivers around there. Heidelberg has about 150 000 inhabitants, it's a fairly small city, and over 20% of it are students of the Ruperto Carola or one of the surrounding specialized colleges and universities of applied sciences. It also has a Kendo and Iaido association, something that influenced my decision to go there a lot.
I'm gonna study East Asia Studies with a focus on Japan and Computer Linguistics. I'm allowed to start my Japanese classes with the third semester, or, how you'd call it, the sophomores. I told Jule that I'll have to "sit down on my ass" as we say in German and to start seriously studying because I'm gonna need a scholarship for the 6-12 months I'll have to study in Japan. She actually laughed at me. I admit it, I was like the laziest ass in my entire grade back in high school and somehow still managed to get fairly good grades. She thinks I don't even know how to study, and well, she's not all that wrong. So if you have some great advice about how to study, tell me.
Ah, well, whatever.
I'm kind o really excited about the whole deal.
I'll probably be staying at the dorm since it's cheaper than sharing a flat somewhere in Heidelberg. Plus, the dorms are on the campus. The Ruperto Carola has an open campus, actually, meaning the university is located right in the city center.
It'll be so weird to be "back in school"... I've spend three years working and having the life of a pretty average person, I'm kind of excited to be someone else again. It'll be weird because most of the students in my year will be a lot younger than I am. Maybe. I don't really know.
This is Heidelberg by the way:
If you ever consider studying in Germany, the Ruperto Carola is a really good choice btw, it has awesome exchange programs and a lot of study courses that are taught in English. :-P (read: feel free to visit any time)