Why do all the teachers think that the students are motivated with self-curiosity and thirst for knowledge? I mentioned already our " silent seminars" and I noticed a lot of similar situations in Vaasa. In fact, in my opinion, we are as Pablov's dogs always a little hungry, sleepy and react only on known stimuli. Since long time I questioned myself ( Read more... )

Today there is photo observation from inside of LiU. Some freaky things were captured in the camera of my handy:
Yes, yes, there is some Mac labs in the university. Trendy and almost empty :-)

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Exchange students have to be creative and innovative not only to save funds but also to avoid extra stuff for carrying back home. So having one extra pan (free from IKEA) it's possible to use it as a lid:

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Luggage that suits to bring to the cabin flying with budget airlines is a special market niche nowadays. I saw a couple of times in the shops special ads and some airlines sell it in their online shops under label i.e. "Rayanair approved". LiU seems to discover a new market niche: "Suitable for carrying by bicycle":

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There were one more seminar today. I mean the seminar from the course that I'm taking in LiU now. One more seminar usually means one more presentation per group. In the assignment it was mentioned 7-minute presentation. The teacher before start of the seminar session decreased time till 5 minutes per group ( Read more... )

I love Internet and the possibilities it provides to people! Today in the morning I finally decided that I wanted to try myself in the competition of the Project Management in Finland. But I was in Sweden and I needed a team. Ok, my boyfriend agreed to participate very quickly (surprisingly :-) But we missed one more member. And today was the last ( Read more... )

At the beginning I was very happy to know that there was a sauna in the gym. Yes, after a year in Finland I fell in love with this kind of spare time. So after a quite intensive training I dreamed about hot sauna and how it would positively affects my stretched muscles ( Read more... )

My first feeling today in the morning when I looked through the window was scary. My brain didn't work properly and I was still sleepy. Firstly I thought as it had been a big party yesterday in the university some crazy students had decided to paint the grass in white... Well, it was wrong assumption :-( In reality it was like this:

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I think the best example of our nerdy life in Linkoping is virgin clear overall by the middle of October (two month since our arrival). Even tying it up causes some troubles in the absence of experience:

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Strategy must be something serious when men in suits and ties discuss it on the top levels of the headquarters skyscrapers. Well, it appeared that theory of strategy is not so serious. As an evidence this is a snapshot from the white board of my lecture in Strategy:


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